Posted on 12/01/2009 6:42:25 AM PST by nuconvert
Tehran warned on Tuesday that it will take strong action against five detained British sailors if it is proven they had "bad intentions" when their racing yacht entered Iran's Persian Gulf waters and was seized.
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You just don’t sail or hike in the middle east. Flying is bad as well. Fact is, do nothing in the middle east. We all need to leave.
We learned from the hostage crisis in the 70s that you don’t blow out the coverage of these people. It actually puts them in more danger.
Let the Iranians realize they won’t get any publicity out of this, and they’ll be more likely to let the objects of no worth, go quicker.
Iran wants this to be an international incident. Let them play that game in a vacuum.
I’m heading to Muscat in a couple of weeks — hope my plane doesn’t blow off course. (I have my hijab ready....)
When can we expect Newsweak to report on the Iranians flushing Bibles down the craphole to taunt these prisoners?
Is it too early to ask for warcrimes investigations?
That sounds fair, now can we send the middle easterners that are here for “bad purposes” or that are here to build the moon god minarets back to where they belong?
Iran has been looking for these sorts of events. In the last couple of years, they trumped up charges (as you would in any show trial) and then “pardoned” the guilty in absence of trial to show “how good natured” the Iranian nutjob is.
“We learned from the hostage crisis in the 70s that you don’t blow out the coverage of these people. It actually puts them in more danger”
Actually, just the opposite. The regime may hold onto them a bit longer, but they’re generally in less danger because the world is watching.
“Let the Iranians realize they won’t get any publicity out of this, and they’ll be more likely to let the objects of no worth, go quicker.”
Publicity is only part of why they like taking hostages. Western hostages are never objects of no worth. Iran always seems to get something for them - like getting back their IRGC members and supposed “diplomats” who were being held in Iraq.
At the very least, holding westerners gets them time and leverage behind the scenes.
“Iran wants this to be an international incident. “
Yes, that’s their preference.
“Let them play that game in a vacuum.”
No. The world needs to stop turning a blind eye to the “Terror Masters” and get sufficiently outraged and take them down.
Good luck
Over two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring “concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury”, the ambassador replied:
“It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every Muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy’s ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.”
They still believe that today.
I’m going to let the first comments go, because I think you make some good points, even if I don’t necessarily agree with them in total. Some of them I do.
The real bottom line was your bottom line, and I totally agree. It’s long past time to take Iran down. They’ve been playing the Saddam Hussein game of mouthing off. We should stick a cork in it for them, and eliminate their missile and nuclear programs in the process.
The international community needs to come together on this. If they won’t, we’ll just have to do it by ourselves.
Good natured... ;-)
I know what you mean. It does seem that way doesn’t it.
I wonder what the good folks (/s) who desired the Ayatollah to return, think these days. I’ll bet there are a lot of folks in Iran that wish the Shah and his family were still in charge.
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