Silly Reason for War: Difference between revisions

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**More accurately she proved barren during the handfasting and the loss of an eye was a pretext for ending it.

**The MacDonald's had always been a power in the land, though they were kind of a has been by the time while the Macleods were in a period of ambition under a series of talented chiefs. It was very much a clash of power.

* The War of Parsley Point(as columnist Charles Krauthammer) is a subversion because the behavior of the governments involved suggests they knew the whole thing was silly in the first place. Morocco set a small detachment to occupy Perejil(Parsley in Spanish) and then waited until it was ejected by the Spaniards. There was no blood shed and only a small amount of military effort. Making it obvious that someone said roughly, "As we pay all those expensive soldiers anyway and as there is no Hollywood Mogul needing spear carriers this year, we might as well use a few in our childish prestige games. We'll arrange it so no one gets hurt of course; what do you think we are, barbarians?"

* The War of Parsley Point(as columnist Charles Krauthammer named it) is a subversion because the behavior of the governments involved suggests they knew the whole thing was silly in the first place. Morocco set a small detachment to occupy Perejil(Parsley in Spanish) and then waited until it was ejected by the Spaniards. There was no blood shed and only a small amount of military effort. Making it obvious that someone said roughly, "As we pay all those expensive soldiers anyway and as there is no Hollywood Mogul needing spear carriers this year, we might as well use a few in our childish prestige games. We'll arrange it so no one gets hurt of course; what do you think we are, barbarians?"