You know, those Iranians are some sick bastards. Taking hostages is second nature to them of course, they do have that history of doing so. Then they make their captives parrot unbelievable statements nobody believes and think they are getting away with something. Idiots. Not only that, they take a woman soldier, who is not muslim and impose their religiously inspired female hating garb on her. Calling them barbarians is an insult to barbarians. It reminds me of Saddam and his patting the little boy on the head when he was in the hostage holding business. That worked out well for him didn't it?
I'm looking at the BBC and having a hard time finding any coverage of the British sailors who were taken hostage. That struck me as odd. I hear the whispers that the British are looking at being more low keyed about the whole thing and I think it's two different reactions. The BBC has just plain taken sides against it's own government and against it's people. More coverage on Mugabe than it's own sailors. That seems criminal right there. The British government and it's slow and easy reaction, combined with it's non conflict orders to it's soldiers and sailors is equally criminal. Not letting it's people defend themselves, not defending them in the first place. They might as well have put them in sun dresses and had them doing nothing. Hopefully their rules of engagement will be reassessed.
Will there be a confrontation against the Iranians. We can only hope. It needs to happen, there is no need to use anything other than planes and ships to decapitate the Iranian military than what we already have in place. It will end a good deal of the blustering and posturing. Perception is reality, especially over there and the perception that the Iranians are able to tweak us and the British enhances their position and statute in the area. Reagan destroyed their Navy in reaction to provocations, simple. Let's blow it up and blow up their nuclear facilities and ask them if they want another. Otherwise the Iranians will just slow bleed this, maybe we'll release the woman, oh no, we didn't mean that. We're not releasing them until they say they were trespassing. Well, maybe after the trial. No, no. Give them a date certain then start blowing shit up. It's the only language they understand, it's a language and an ability we still have and it's a matter of just having the will to do it.
