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We make the mistake of responding the same way to the thugs running the rouge states every time.

That is the problem here. Since the 19th Century the response is always the same. Buy the local chief off, get your people back.

WAY past time people start looking for different responses to these issues. They could get away with this crap during the Cold War cause they could always play kissing face with the other side if we got too tough on them. They don't have that option anymore.

Rewarding a thug for bad behavior, (i.e. giving the Iranian Government a PR win here) only encourages him to continue being a thug. The proper response is to demonstrate clearly their are lines that he cannot cross without paying a very high price.

I think people should consider there is probably a very good reason they grabbed Brits instead of US personnel. For months now the British Foreign Minister Straw has been running around insisting there is no military option for dealing with Iran. I think the Iranians knew Bush would drop the hammer on them and went after what they thought would be the soft target for this.