On 02/03/2012 05:51 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros > Anartaxius"<anartaxius@...> wrote: >> --- In [email protected], turquoiseb<no_reply@> wrote: >>> --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros >>> Anartaxius"<anartaxius@> wrote: >>>> --- In [email protected], "John"<jr_esq@> wrote: >>>>> That's what Panetta said. But this revelation smells like >>>>> a subterfuge to confuse the Iranians. If this was a true >>>>> story, why would Panetta leak the story and then deny it >>>>> when asked by reporters? >>>>> >>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/panetta-says-israel-could-strike-iran-spring-report-232458035.html >>>>> >>>>> JR >>>> I am surprised Israel has not attacked already, judging >>>> from past history. They have the most at stake immediately. >>>> It would also solve problems for other countries unwilling >>>> to just go in and bomb Iran, which is probably what they >>>> would like to do. Will Rogers said some 80 years ago that >>>> diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can >>>> find a rock. Israel is probably the rock. Then all the other >>>> nations can claim they felt diplomacy would have worked. >>> It's too bad Maharishi never thought of sending >>> teams of dedicated Governors of the Age of Enlight- >>> enment to Iran to buttbounce for peace. If he had, >>> surely their all-powerful Woo Woo would have chilled >>> the place out such that things like building a bomb >>> wouldn't have even occurred to them. >> Actually he did, in 1978, as the Iranian government of the >> Shah collapsed, but the governors had to leave as the >> situation deteriorated. He sent them to other countries >> then too, which I do not remember, except one in Central >> America somewhere. Then success was proclaimed. I think >> this was called the World Peach Project. > This is why I'm not a big fan of irony. I'm more > than aware of the people sent to Iran. If I'm not > mistaken, our Nabs may have been one of them. > > I was just commenting on the long-term Woo Woo > effects their efforts seem to have produced. :-)
I recall those which reminded me of old WWII movies of "the men going off to war." I didn't volunteer as I wanted to pay off my debt from courses and took "don't go if it is going to be a pinch" seriously. I also had enough of rounding courses by then.
