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I read this morning that Iranian students are calling for a trade of the British soldiers for 5 Iranian spies held by the U.S.

The Iranian strategy seems to be to try to drive a wedge between the US and Britain by conditioning the release of British soldiers on the US releasing the Iranians. I don't believe they really have any interest in their spies. This is all about divide and conquer.

I think the Iranians do not understand Western reaction to the taking of our soldiers. That is the flaw in their strategy and I think it will cost them. When Western soldiers are taken hostage, Western leaders are essentially given a blank check by the public when it comes to military force. That means the Iranians just voided their greatest asset - Western peace advocates in the media and on the left.

You gotta be kidding. Right? Most of the leftist wussies (that's approximately half of Americans) couldn't care LESS if members of our military are being held hostage. And they could care even less than that about the British military. They'll cave and negotiate with the extremists until every one of us is either in slave camps or headless.

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That means the Iranians just voided their greatest asset - Western peace advocates in the media and on the left.

Iranian students are calling for a trade of the British soldiers for 5 Iranian spies held by the U.S.

Uh, excuse me, but I regret this memory-loss perception that 15 British sailors might just offset the injustice of earlier "hostage-taking," that is to say, the Iranians arrested in Iraq. How predictable that Iranian "students" (like those who took charge of the US embassy back in the Carter malaise, no doubt) would come up with this jarring juxtaposition!

If there's anything the Iranians begin to offset, it's the 170 US military lives lost (and hundreds more wounded), directly as a result of Iranian weaponry supplied to insurgent forces in Iraq. Most Iraqis, of course, would rightly add to that their own killed and wounded. Given the Bush administration gun-shy approach, I think we may be confident there's plenty of evidence supporting those Iranians' involvement in Quds' supply of weaponry, i.e., their bold acts of war against Iraq and the Coalition.

I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.