>>heric - I am not suggesting that countries should not attempt to devise international protocols and laws. I am suggesting that this situation is not worth starting a war over. Period.<<

Okay then. Nothing to talk about.

I did, however, see you write this:

>>What the Iranians do is like what we do. They don't call people they arrest "hostages". We don't call people we arrest "hostages". It's the same self-serving rhetoric on all sides, as far as I can see. Everyone thinks it's the other guy who is in the wrong. <<

If Americans made a military incursion across the border to "arrest" some lumber executives for price-fixing or something, then held them in Guantanamo pending lumber tarriff negotiations, I don't think you would say "It's all the same, arrest/kidnap, potatoe/potahto."

dianavan: Yes, I'm sorry and I regretted it afterward. You ARE an antagonistic b**ch. No one could fake it like that. I don't know what got into me.