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| 2012-02-28 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 "darkly warning Israel it had better get with the U.S. program" We HAVE no program, that's the problem. Our "program" consists of "we will shun you if you don't play by the rules and send you sternly worded letters and say bad things about you in the press". That's just about the extent of it. Sanctions? Sanctions have never worked in the history of the United States of American. Gee, those sanctions sure stopped North Korea playing with the nukes, didn't they? Once you publicly announce sanctions, the other side gets a bit of a boost just by standing up to them, in other words, sanctions if announced publicly are at least partially self-neutralizing. If you are going to engage in sanctions, you do so quietly with no press. You start "losing" transactions or they move at a glacial pace. You start denying visas. You start pressuring businesses not to deal with them or better, give them alternative deals that are even better. If you want to play the "sanctions" game, it is better done quietly. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-02-28 14:35 |
| #3 There are no options with this Idiot POTUS. Keep that doofus in the dark and wait until he is gone. Stupid as hell |
| Posted by: newc 2012-02-28 13:10 |
| #2 I sthat guy an idiot. bambai is sending those guys out to undermine the Israelies in the press. Period. Any other damage is purely incidental. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2012-02-28 12:27 |
| #1 This Kabuki show is set to close in Jan. 2013 (with a little luck and a good voter turnout). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-02-28 10:46 |