** Private ** wrote: > I am way less concerned about Iran and Syria than I am about the > complete lack of backbone and diplomacy shown by the current US > government. > http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/17/spain.ship/index.html
So let me get this straight. Spain seizes a ship in its territorial waters (if it was 4 miles out of Gibraltar, it is within the 12 mile zone of Spain) on the suspicion that it traffics in contrabands. Which is a common practice every country does and most certainly is something the US does everyday. (In fact, most countries reserve the right to do that in their entire 200 mile zone and it was the US itself that established the precedent that the patrol zone could extend halfway across the Atlantic.) What exactly would you want the US to do? Would you consider it reasonable if some ship was 8 mile out of Long Island and the US could not board and search it? Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244565 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
