Dr. Sanity is unhappy with England's response to the hostage crisis and thinks that diplomacy is just a stalling tactic for the Iranian mullahs to see how far they can push the West. Here she is with "Showdown at the UK Corral":
The Mullahs are watching and have a great big Cheshire cat grin on their face. They almost certainly have concluded from the useless British and international response that they can get away with practically anything now.Oh boy, she's en fuego. (HT: Maggies Farm)
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I can't believe this post has been up for more than 15 minutes, and we haven't seen a comment about how these spineless lefty Brits would have broken dear old Dad's heart yet.
Actually, it would have broke my Grandfather's heart to see this gutlessness from the Brits.
It's just shocking to see a great nation offering the pretense of diplomacy as some kind of public feint, while genuinely pursuing the same aggressive brinksmanship they'd always intended to pursue in the first place.
The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2414760.ece
A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.
Early on the morning of 11 January, helicopter-born US forces launched a surprise raid on a long-established Iranian liaison office in the city of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. They captured five relatively junior Iranian officials whom the US accuses of being intelligence agents and still holds.
In reality the US attack had a far more ambitious objective, The Independent has learned. The aim of the raid, launched without informing the Kurdish authorities, was to seize two men at the very heart of the Iranian security establishment.
Better understanding of the seriousness of the US action in Arbil - and the angry Iranian response to it - should have led Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence to realise that Iran was likely to retaliate against American or British forces such as highly vulnerable Navy search parties in the Gulf. The two senior Iranian officers the US sought to capture were Mohammed Jafari, the powerful deputy head of the Iranian National Security Council, and General Minojahar Frouzanda, the chief of intelligence of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to Kurdish officials.
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The attempt by the US to seize the two high-ranking Iranian security officers openly meeting with Iraqi leaders is somewhat as if Iran had tried to kidnap the heads of the CIA and MI6 while they were on an official visit to a country neighbouring Iran, such as Pakistan or Afghanistan. There is no doubt that Iran believes that Mr Jafari and Mr Frouzanda were targeted by the Americans.
C'mon, Tony Blair, don't be a gutless Brit! Take the tactical advice of the keyboard kommando experts. Give 'em a 12-hour deadline and then NUKE 'em!
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