[Salem]

"If we find this is going to be a standard practice we need to think very carefully about what rules of engagement we want and how we operate. One can't allow as a standard practice nations to capture a nation's servicemen. That is clearly wrong." "

Puke!

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Right you are, Fred. This guy is talking about locking the barn door after the horses have been stolen. I can't imagine what their families are thinking. "Rules of engagement" like this by active participants in a war zone as tense as the Persian Gulf is incredible and the results, as we have seen, predictable.

The British need to get their people out of harm's way if they aren't going to fight back.

Or get some new Admirals.

[SevenofNine]

Salem I be honest

There are some in Brit society who don't give rat*** or think that kidnap soldiers should be rescue I am serious or their fault they got kidnap

So put that In WTF Catagory

[jveritas]

After the shocking "cold reaction" of the British, both politicians and people, at the terrorist attacks in London in July 2005, I lost a lot of respect for them. They looked at the act as if it was a crime in the train stations " the tube" rather than an act of war by the terrorists against them.

I think the British, and for sure the Europeans, are not willing to fight any war anymore and therefore they deny that an act of terrorism is an act of war such as the attacks in London or Madrid or this terrorist attack by Iran terrorist regime on the British sailors.

I expected this with the French, Germans, Italians, and almost of Europe but not from the British, but now I think Britain is no different surrender monkey than other EU nations.

[jveritas]

One can't allow as a standard practice nations to capture a nation's servicemen. That is clearly wrong."

Oh really, just "wrong"?!! How about that this is a declaration of war by the Iranian terrorist regime that the British are not willing to admit, accept, or face. Very disappointing indeed the spinless reaction of Great Britain.