Lost at Sea
March 25th, 2007Some British soldiers are being held by the Iranians, as you might already be aware. They either were on an attack mission in Iran that was supposed to be covert and got caught or the Iranians grabbed them in Iraqi waters, like the British claim. I don’t know which to believe, really, as the Iranians are the Iranians but the British are the British and have reason, like the Americans and the Israelis, to be striking covertly.
Iran is using strong rhetoric, though, about sovereignty and some such nonsense, and one’s got to wonder if a War is to come of it. If it does, it wouldn’t be the first time that the West attacked Iran for a small while until the Iranians gave: see 1996, late 1980s, for the other times, but Mahmoud Ahmaniac! wasn’t The Man back then, so who knows what’d happen.