Good point, JHP, hair trigger alert with less than well planned incidents possible.
Here's the poop on the parent ship the soldiers were seized from. (They were seized from small boarding craft, not this vessel itself, which is actually a good thing...for the Iranians.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cornwall_%28F99%29
This will either devolve rapidly to open warefare, or smolder out, depending mainly on how the UK and the US react to it.
Watching very close this weekend.
This incident may be a pretty good indicator as to how we are going to approach the Iranian issue over the remainder of Bush's presidency.
Most of the assets are in place for us to make a move if we want to
This is as good as a pretext as any (take that back, if it was U.S. sailors who had been abducted it would be about as good as a pretext as you could get)