The Sun’s Editorial:
THANK goodness they are free at last.
It is a huge relief to see an end to the Iran captives crisis, which worsened the longer it went on.
But the sight of the illegally-detained British forces thanking Iranian tyrants for their freedom will sicken the nation.
Smirking President Ahmadinejad milked the humiliating moment for all it was worth.
The ratings were paraded in cheap new suits and had to grovel in public for his blessing. Their 13-day ordeal should soon be over.
But nobody emerges from this crisis with credit.
The Royal Navy failed to protect the patrol — or spot boatloads of heavily-armed Republican Guards racing to ambush it.
Britain’s official response was at times uncertain and, in the case of Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, downright embarrassing.
The UN emerged in its true colours — divided and ineffectual.
The real villains are the Iranians who grabbed a non-aggressive British crew acting legally under a UN mandate.
At no time did the British personnel stray out of the area they were supposed to be in.
Yet the mullahs forced terrified mum Faye Turney and her shipmates to “confess” they were in Iranian waters — and to apologise.
Nobody knows the pressures they faced, but the sight of British servicemen — apparently relaxed and unharmed — criticising their own Government was less than edifying.
In the end, Iran got what it wanted. It probed the responses of the civilised world at a moment of international tension.
It found neither Britain nor its allies have the clout or confidence to take on a fanatical regime that today represents the biggest threat to world peace.
Tony Blair insists there have been “no negotiations”.
But who will be surprised if half a dozen Iranian insurgents are quietly set free in a few months time?
Those are questions for later.
Today, let’s be joyful that our people are coming home at last.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,31-2007150643,00.html
Now if it was me, I would have picked up the entire Iranian embassy in the UK, and filed through their papers, just taking inventory, don’t you know.
Further, I would have given the UK embassy notice so they could burn their papers in plenty of time. That, and warned their security (do they use marines too?) to be ready.
Then, before negotiating the exchange I would identify the large persian city that would be destroyed if any of the detained personnel were harmed. Each day of negotiation I would add a city to that list.
Just as an inducement for them to keep their psychopaths under tight leash...
Bow to your Dominator !
The typical 3 steps in 2 weeks : Kidnapping - Stockholm syndrome - Conversion.
I would not be surprised, in 6 month from now, that some of the british converted to Islam. This might be the classic example what some people warn us about. In 2 weeks time laps, we saw what might take 20 years for a country. The slow Conversion of the western world to Islam. And on the end we will say : Thank you, and we will joke with our new masters and thanking them for not cutting off our head for some benign misbehavior.