If they thought it would help, they would have kidnapped US military. But they know that there are folks in the US who would get after Iran if he did it. However, SurrenderbyPork Pelosi has provided him a share of encouragement, assuming he reads the situation incorrectly.
Terrorism forced more regime change by attacking non US individuals than by injuries to US troops (which are thankfully half that which occured chez Clinton).
He has to be faced down, by capturing and parading more of his flunkies. We can't let up.
Iranian student groups called yesterday for the 15 detainees to be held until US forces released five Revolutionary Guards captured in Iraq earlier this year.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper based in London, quoted an Iranian military source as saying that the aim was to trade the Royal Marines and sailors for these Guards.
The claim was backed by other sources in Tehran. “As soon as the corps’s five members are released, the Britons can go home,” said one source close to the Guards.
He said the tactic had been approved by Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who warned last week that Tehran would take “illegal actions” if necessary to maintain its right to develop a nuclear programme.
We know the surge is working and working well--the dems are all a fluster and now the terrorists are pulling new stunts as well! If that's not enough evidence I don't know what is.
It's just a matter of how to respond to 15 allies being kidnapped.I guess the ball is more in the camp of the UK than us this time.