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Originally Posted by Yirmeyahu
The fallacy in both syllogisms is in assuming that because a nation considers an act, whatever it may be, as an act of war, that therefore it is an act of war justifying a military response.
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If you wish to argue against a logical construct not based in the reality of the situation and not the construct that describes the reality of the situation, feel free to win that worthless battle.
The argument was not originally presented as a construct that based its premise on the fact that it was an explicit Israeli casus belli, but that it was a known casus belli. You have seized upon a single specific post that stated that it was known that Israel would consider closure of the strait to be an act of war (which is around the fourth or fifth post that addressed the closure). However, it is not surprising to see you attempt to narrow in on specifics to destroy context, oh he who doesn't wish to argue semantics, and then ride the strawman to death.
A Pyrrhic victory if you ask me.