Have you thought about using the train instead?
Posted on 04/02/2007 8:44:45 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
Britain intends to send a senior Royal Navy officer to Tehran with a face-saving plan to win the release of 15 sailors and marines, officials said amid confirmation of direct contacts with Tehran over the matter....
The naval officer, who has commanded ships in the Persian Gulf, would provide Iran with a public assurance that the Royal Navy would never knowingly enter Iranian waters in the future without securing Tehran's permission, officials told the Sunday Telegraph. Officials hope that would be enough to placate Iran's leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
My concern as well, yet another hostage opportunity.
The sun has finally set on the British Empire!
The mullahs will enjoy seeing senior Royal Navy officers grovel. They can call their friends in Argentina and let them know that they're in for a treat.
Is this Officer going to come there on his knees? Geez, how embarrassing.
“The sun has finally set on the British Empire!”
yep.
brits are has-beens.
and the persians, arabs, and chinese know it.
Nah, probably with a GPS in his pocket - marking coordinates for targeting... ;-)
Embarrassing just about says it all. The PC Pu**yfication of the British Empire.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
WWII Royal Navy: http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignRoyalNavy.htm
Today’s Royal Navy: http://www.kommersant.com/p-9803/r_530/British_Navy/
If he's on *his* knees in front of the Iranians, he won't be the one...
...never mind
Cheers!
This is old news by now.
OK that’s it.
The time has come, in this day of the “Vag_na Monologues”, the day of liberal women preaching about womanhood in the most irritating way possible, for the one, and the only reasonable response:
UNAPOLOGETIC TESTOSTERONE.
Deal with it.
...GPS in his pocket - marking coordinates for targeting....
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Let us hope this is the deal.
They're sending a military officer... Not a diplomat.
I know this thing sounds like a prearranged “done deal”, but I still have ten bucks that says the Iranians won’t release the 15 servicemembers without a more fulsome “apology” (and maybe not even then).
I think so too.
Presumably, the US is also a has-been nation for its surrender to the Iranians in 1980. And its retreat from Vietnam. And its retreat from Beirut. And its retreat from Somalia?
I have nothing but respect for the U.S. nation and the U.S. military, but I find recent dismissals of the British grossly unfair and an insult to our dead soldiers. Critics of Blair in the UK have argued that the UK has received nothing in return for being the only US ally willing to pay ‘the blood price’ in the War on Terror. Unfortunately, it appears that they might be right.
don’t wet your panties!
the bush-boy administration can’t even deal with internal enemies,
not to mention external.
the same disease that grips europe, grips the states.
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