[Pokey78]

[nuconvert]

"Go ahead, imam, make my day"?

LoL.

Steyn's got this figured out.

[wasp69]

Ivan? What say you?

[Servant of the 9]

Stein i sthe greatest.

Rafsanjani was looking forward to the big day when his side got nukes and settled the Zionist question for ever "since a single atomic bomb has the power to completely destroy Israel, while an Israeli counter-strike can only cause partial damage to the Islamic world."

Somehow I doubt that.
I would bet that Israel has enough enhanced fallout devices (Cobalt bombs) in it's nuclear arsenal to make the entire Islamic World uninhabitable for the next 50,000 years.
If they are going to be exterminated, they will take all their enemies with them.
Wouldn't you?

So9

[Ichneumon]

...and Steyn hits another one out of the park.

[Gritty]

Thanks, Pokey78, for beating you-know-who to the draw.

As usual, Steyn cuts to the chase and those unlucky enough to be in his sights fall first.

[Mercat]

There's something very sexy about this man. Are there other pictures? Sort of an Ann Coulter rule for female freepers?

[metesky]

When Steyn slaps 'em, they stay slapped!

[gymbeau]

Thanks, as always, for the ping!

Cheers
Jim

[Lyford]

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[nothingnew]

q-flu-less Steyn bump

FMCDH(BITS)

[XJarhead]

Do you think that's true? Or do you think it more likely that it was, in fact, a two-way conversation with lots of cajoling and pleading on the British part and reminders that London and Teheran are supposed to be friends?

I think Steyn is wrong on this one, and that's probably the first time I've ever thought that.

I'm guessing it was very much a one way conversation with the Iranian ambassador. "We're going to give you a day or two to let them go. If you do, we won't ratchet up the rhetoric and embarrass you publicly. If you don't, than we and the United States are going to be extremely unhappy." So the "tradoff" was that the Brits don't force the Iranians to look like they're caving it to westerners, but the Brits get their guys back quickly.

If Teheran really wanted to play hardball, they'd have kept them for a few weeks to embarrass the Brits. They didn't.

[dennisw]

Even odder has been the acquiescence of the press. If pictures had been unearthed of some over-zealous Guantanamo guards doing to our plucky young West Midlands jihadi what the Iranian government did on TV to those Royal Marines, two thirds of Fleet Street (including many of my Spectator and Telegraph colleagues) would be frothing non-stop.

[knighthawk]

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