yes,I know,beardedbruce. i did. I thought we're talking about iran or North Kores.

First I had no idea either of them was threatening us with anything currently.(Maybe in the future)

Secondhand,I thought with them that therefore we had time to do what I suggested.

You leaped from 'being threatened with a bat' (which,as I say,neither country looks like they've even got to yet) to 'having my skull crushed' just like that, and I don't see where that argument of yours is relevant to the Iran or N.Korean situation. it just looks like it's designed to put the fear of catastrophe into the mind (if not feelings) of the reader in a rhetorical and illogical way. (The conservative way - frighten people,then tell them who's to blame - copyright Abraham Sorkin)

Naturally,therefore,as I said,I think we have time vis-a-vis them,to try what I suggested in my earlier post.

it looks to me like an improvement in the current - er - mess. If I'd have come up with the policies and outcomes we have now,I might be locked up. Sitting Presidents and Prime Ministers are seemingly immune. Don't know why.




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