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Botnst · #1 11-10-2007, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Therefore this will be in international waters. How will you enforce it? If you are talking about a 12 mile area, it will be difficult even tho is is US waters. Assuming the article is correct, who else will agree with it? You are talking of at least 1/3 of the water surface. You can't close off such a large section. We can't even close off the mexican border and that is way smaller an area. Now you want to take on the world? It will lead to fighting with most of the world. Close off fishing and start sinking ships will be an act of war. Even if it doesn't, do we have the money to do that? We are running a deficit as it stands. Such an expense, even IF, and I doubt it, it could be done, will be so expensive, we can't maintain it.

Only 2 options remain. We either get everybody on board or we leave it till it is right in our faces and then people will HAVE to do something. At that point, fishing will be so slow, it won't be too much of a sell. Again, we are talking about international waters where we all have a right to be there. Now you are going to tell others that they cannot fish there and we will sink them. Isn't it like me telling you that you cannot be at this public park because of this, that or the other?

You sink vessels that violate your rule.

aklim · #2 11-10-2007, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

You sink vessels that violate your rule.

Wow! So simple. I never thought of that.

They will be so stupid too that they won't retaliate.

But lets say that is true. Where will you get sufficient resources?

Why don't you come to reality from Fantasyland? I realize it isn't as nice but such is life. We can't even do what we want in Iraq. To be blunt, we don't have the stones to do what it takes there when people are trying to kill us and worse. This is in a region where disruption of oil is a "now" problem. But you think that we will be able to shoot and kill others who are trying to earn a living because we feel that this exclusion zone MIGHT be a good idea? Now you want us to enforce a zone way larger than that with lethal force. Besides your pithy one liner answers, do you have specific answers to the 2 questions below?

1. Where will you find a country or countries with the stones to fire on unarmed fisherpeople?

2. Where will you find the resources to do this action?