Posted on 06/22/2004 8:11:29 AM PDT by monkapotamus
Edited on 07/19/2004 2:14:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
June 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. diplomats are meeting Iranian government officials to try to secure the release of three Royal Navy patrol boats and eight crew members seized yesterday by Iran in the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq.
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And here we bring in Teddy Roosevelt, nearly a century later, busily employing his Big Stick policy. In May 1904, when the Republican National Convention was then meeting in Chicago, a certain Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American citizen, was seized by one of the native Moroccan chieftains, Raisuli. The president ordered our Mediterranean and South Atlantic squadrons rushed to Tangier. The Republican Convention was dragging along which displeased Roosevelt even though he was sure of being nominated again.
Although arrangements had already been made to release Perdicaris, the president had Secretary of State Hay draft and send off a famous telegram to the American consul general at Tangier, insisting that the United States must have "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." The telegram read aloud at the convention in Chicago created a sensation.
Blair needs to do something similar.
Absolutely not. How DARE they?!?
Regards, Ivan
Iran working to defeat Bush
Ready for $60-a-Barrel Oil?
The Iranian election strategy at work.
Michael Ledeen
National Review
June 22, 2004, 8:42 a.m.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1157695/posts?page=17#17
Apologize, absolutely not. If the British apologize to Iran regarding this matter, it will be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
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