Originally Posted by: PonyOneto use the "big guy on campus" analogy... what if there was a guy in the high school who took a sucker punch at you, so you beat him down... and when he ran away, instead of chasing him, you grabbed some guy who was cheering him on by the neck, kneed him in the groin, drop kicked him, and gave him an even more severe beat down? so the guy didn't like you, and maybe he even would have liked to have beaten you up, but regardless he wasn't the one that sucker punched you.

now to everyone on the sidelines you look like an overly aggressive jerk, and all it does is lend more validity to you needing to be "taken down." and the guy that sucker punched you is still nowhere to be found.

Though the commonly accepted view on this situation, this analogy is flawed and to explain it, let me just use the names we are making analogies about to keep thinks simple:

You see, we had previously stomped Iraq for beating up our friend Kuwait and stealing all his lunch money. When we were done, we (and everybody else) told Iraq that if he kept planning on beating up our friends like Kuwait and trying to buy himself some brass knuckles that we'd kick the snot out of him again and this time, it would REALLY hurt.

Now, while Iraq was cheering when Osama sucker punched us (and sheltering some of Osama's goons), the real reason Iraq got beat up again was because he was still trying to get a pair of brass knuckles (and some other nasty implements).

However, due to a horrible speach impediment and a total inability to let our friend England do all of the talking, it LOOKS like we beat up Iraq for no reason simply because we can't communicate properly.