re: #433 Anymouse

Well, Iran declared us its enemy after seizing our embassy (an act of war). We did not start bulldozing the homes of family members for the actions of the Iranian government for example. (Well, so-and-so was involved in the embassy takeover, so we will bulldoze his family’s homes in California.)

We never went to war with Iran, and never fired a shot at it under President Carter. The only shot fired I am aware of was the USS Vincennes shooting down an airliner over the Persian Gulf during the Reagan Administration. (That incident has been claimed as a crime against humanity by Iran and as a diversion by the US Navy which claimed it was using captured IFF identification codes for US F-14s, though no proof of that was released)

And Jews didn’t declare Palestinians enemy until the 1948 UN resolution was met with refusal and war. Then Israel after winning in 67 offered them all that land they won back minus east Jerusalem. Bulldozing homes was a desperate idea to try and counter the funding by Iran and Saudi Arabia and others who paid the families of suicide bombers for their “heroic” acts.