Shy Talk is right.
About what? Certainly not about this pile of steaming cow manure.
Pull your horns in US, you are one of our former colonies and everytime you do something (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq) it turns out that it might have been beter if you'd not bothered.
About thirty million people in South Korean will not agree with what his talk smells of. As to being " one of our former colonies," in invite he who talks such shy** to get over no longer being a Major Power.
Welcome to the year 2012, your Empire crumbled a generation ago. Time and history moves forward. Deal with it.
You look at most of these conflicts, loads of willy waving, Loads of s***e spoken by great leaders and more importantly lots of young lives wasted because of great leaders going to show the previous one how it should be done.
Can you be a bit more specific?
If the economies of countries is that bad get our forces home and leave these foreigin battles alone.
Who is we, in this case?
If the strait of Hormuz is closed let the nations involved sort it out through talks which will save young lives.
That would be a novel case in human history.
I'd invite you to consider what is to be done on the actual planet Earth. War is one way of resolving conflict or disagreement, though it is my opinion that it ought to be a last resort.
Nearly all conflicts end up been settled through 'peace talks' which if they held prior to openning fire would have saved loads of lives, billions of whatever currency and loads of heartache for the families left behind.
If talks work, which they sometimes do, then there isn't a war. When they don't, there is one. Your attempt at a false dichotomy ought to embarass you. It isn't an either or, it's a matter of "what's the sticking point in this particular case?" and "what's the appeal being made for, or against, resolving this dispute via force?"
Will Blair, Brown, Bush, Obama and co be brought to the Haig charge with war crimes? Just seems so silly when you look back and see what has happened
Try dealing with a reality based continuum, not your fantasies. Realpolitik is at work every day
What seems silly is your post, given it's being devoid of both reason and attachment to reality.
By contrast, Widger made good sense.