I am not sure about the allies but, I really think that if they try to pull this with the U.S. Navy every man and woman would fight to the death…
The game is afoot, they won’t be able to do this twice. At least, I sure hope not or all is lost…

In fact, I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if some small Iranian boat or two blew up in the next few weeks… There are serving Captains of the U.S. Navy that were advocating taking out a hull a day while the Brit sailors were hostages.

I am impressed with how reasonable they are, and how responsive to diplomatic solutions. I say we supply these moderate, reasonable Somali pirates with unmonitored nuclear technology, right now.

HAHA!!

Iran is lucky they don’t get there one and only gas refinery replaced with a smoldering crater…

Whole thing reminds me of this Monty Python episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRm5WcjOikQ

Vercotti Bros: “Colonel, you’ve got a nice Army base here.”

“Wouldn’t want anything to happen to it…”

MikeHu on April 7, 2007 at 7:11 PM

You have me at a disadvantage sir, well played, spot on, and the like!

Excellent!

As time passes we may begin to think of this event very differently than we do today.

TheBigOldDog on April 7, 2007 at 5:27 PM

I have been thinking the same thing.

Vercotti Bros: “Colonel, you’ve got a nice Army base here.”

“Wouldn’t want anything to happen to it…”

Ok, now let me get this straight . . .

I was thinking more along the lines of, cross into Iraqi waters to kidnap British sailors & marines, then release them to show that your really can be trusted with responsibilities like atomic weapons. “See we didn’t hurt them, so we really wouldn’t hurt anyone with a WMD.”

It is amazing piece. I’m definitely supporting Fred Thompson. He is the exact type of Republican we need to nominate. Judge for yourself:

http://www.redstate.com/stories/foreign_affairs/the_pirates_of_tehran

Maybe we are getting ready to show Iran just how grateful we are…

We should simply dart into Iranian waters, capture a dozen or so of their coast guard, parade them around on television, threaten them with execution, announce we are going to have trials … and then give them back to Iran. I don’t have a problem with that.

crosspatch on April 7, 2007 at 5:34 PM

I hope we’ve communicated to Iran that if she want to keep her navy off the sea floor, she’ll not use it in a threatening way against us or our allies again.

Probably not.

As time passes we may begin to think of this event very differently than we do today.

TheBigOldDog on April 7, 2007 at 5:27 PM

Perhaps – if most people have been paying attention, still remember the past AND are willing to see these inconvenient truths about a man and reigeme we are asked to trust to keep the nukes “peaceful”. Having said that, Imanutjob may have just demonstrated to his peeps that we are as war-weary and impotent as we were back in 1979, which I think does more to determine what course Iran may allow him to take in gaining international “respect”.

It reminded the country of 1979. I’ve seen 3 or 4 ex-hostages on TV every single day. Each swears Imanutjob was one of the captures. It reminded us of about Iran’s killing of our Marines in Beirut and all their other state sponsored terrorism including funding, supplying and training terrorists in Iraq.

It made Pelosi and the Dems look officious, naive and very dangerous.

It exposed the weakness of Europe (and Britain especially) and many Europeans did not like what they saw. You know the old saying, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Well, it looks like they are ready to admit it.

As time passes we may begin to think of this event very differently than we do today.

“There may be more of a disposition to try to find a way to get into negotiations on the nuclear issue, now that Iran has demonstrated that negotiations on this issue of detained service people can be productive,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for Non-Proliferation at the Institute for Strategic Studies.

Translation: “Now that the Iranians have cleverly determined that not even their reversion back to punk hostage takers rises to the level of an act of war in the eyes of the West, Teheran is pumped at the prospect of the number of goodies the west will cough up in exchange for Iran going about completing its nuclear program down a less threatening path.”

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