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?
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.