It just boggles my noodle.... When is the international community, including the United States gonna get: The only thing Muslims understand is OVERWHELMING FORCE. Shove it down their throats. NOTHING else works people! Talk just PLAYS INTO THEIR HANDS! Negotiation ONLY SERVES THEIR PURPOSES. Look, its Win or Die with these animals. Kill em. Talk later.
"There is nothing to be gained in provoking a confrontation, because that would be playing into their hands"
That's exactly what the Iranians calculated you would think. And as we see here, they were right.
Why were 15 British sailors sitting in dinghies?
How could they become surrounded by Iranian vessels?
Where was their mother ship and why would they allow the Iranians to leave with the sailors?
The mind boggles. Perhaps I'm naive and perhaps it would be the last order I ever gave, but if I were in command there would be NO WAY IN HELL my sailors would be taken without a fight.
jw
What does Blair do?
Kiss Iranian arse?
Perhaps Blair should ask for a pair from the Iron Lady.
Just checked BBC and other British newspapers this evening for news on the kidnapping of these British sailors. It is absolutely amazing that you could read these papers and never know that this has happened unless you go to read some fine print. It seems that the British are so turned off on the war that they could care less about these servicemen. The Telegram one of the more conservative newspapers did have a story but even there they mentioned that never again should their nation be involved in trying to bring democracy to a part of the world that is not going to accept same and warned about any efforts to do the same for Iran.
Thought that readers on this website should know what is going on in the land of our chief ally. I personally believe that most of the rhetoric supporting this war came from Tony Blair not the US. If anything, GWB was bamboozled into to the attack on Saddam by the high flying idealism of Blair and now that ally is going to disappear from the scene within months leaving the US holding the bag.
That would send a "message" as the political imbeciles are wont to repeatedly say.
The response to the inquiry, which had been immediately patched through to Ministry of Defence headquarters in Whitehall, was to hold fire.
The Gutless British leadership...
England is Adrift..... a lamb to slaughter.
Cherrio! Wankers.... "Big Ears" is sipping his tea.
Ta Ta ! chin up ole-Boy!...theres a good fellow!
No 'Bullocks" to be found.
Only Sissys...