Posted by
Sapper on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:28:00 PM
Good news and bad news. First, the good news:
The british sailors and marines have been "pardoned" and released by Iran according Sky News.
Now for the bad news:
This whole incident is not a good indicator for the free world that is currently under seige by the barbarians at the gate. Iran is a backwards, medieval theocracy who's greatest claims to fame are oil and brutality in the name of "Allah". And Britain crumpled before her like a half-starved beaten dog.
First off, the british sailors and royal marines appeared to be far too pliable and accommodating to their propagandist hosts. Ahmadinejad practically had two British officers doing stupid pet tricks on international TV.
(Ahmadinejad and one of his new "friends")
Are all British military personnel so soft? At the least, I'd say they were extremely ill-prepared to comport themselves honorably in the face of a hostile enemy. Ultimately the fault has to lie with their commanders who apparently neither trained them how to conduct themselves in captivity nor trained them to be able to defend themselves against fat middle-aged Iranian Coast Guardsmen.
(Iranian Coast Guardsman)
Second, nearly all of England seemed paralyzed with fear to act or stand up to a terrorist thug playing president. Certainly a commando style raid was not called for but for Cripe's sake show a little backbone. We are at war, people. This is a war for the very survival of liberal Western civilization and they just routed us like battalion of French pastry chefs storming the beaches of Normandy.
(Photo of 1979 terrorist hostage taking in Iran. Ahmadinejad is thought to be shown in this picture.)
We're in trouble, folks. Our friends need to muscle up -- and that includes the Democrats in Congress. If not, then a Kiwi injection may be called for. (For those of you not in the military, all you need to know is Kiwi is a boot polish.)
(Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey on this.)