Reply #13: Excellent work - as usual. [View All]

[truedelphi]

This is the part that resonates with me -(From yr article) "Commenting on the hearing for accused plotter, Manssor Arbab Arbabsiar, the CS Monitor's Scott Peterson reported widespread skepticism, "Why the plot doesn't add up?" He quoted a Rand Corporation researcher who noted that the case doesn't fit Iran's normal mode of operation. Peterson went on to report that when Iran's government murders individuals overseas, they do it with trusted insiders to kill, not rookies who contract with drug dealers."

Exactly. This nation's justice system, which gets grades of "F" on everything from Family Court to murder cases, allows the offices of countless District Attorney to get some low level drug snitch to testify against the alleged murderer that the person confessed to the crime while with them in jail.

But hopefully things don't work that easily for larger matters that have to come under a bit more scrutiny. And that could, under the right set of provocations, (including China re-assessing certain aspects of its monetary policy,) start WWIII.

Back in the Olden Days, a person actually had to assassinate the Archduke of Serbia to start a world war. (And that always seemed a tad bit over reactive - one Archduke dies, and then all of Europe and the USA is at wart?) Now an administration thinks it can just set up a gossip campaign of an alleged assassination to start war plans?