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Oh boy... libs can't wait:

Iran crisis grows:
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/03/iran_here_we_go.html

Guess OpFor was right in the last paragraph:

If there’s one thing Iran knows how to do, its take hostages. However, the world’s a different place than it was in 1979 –and we have 130,000 troops parked next door. These days, the capture of troops-as-hostages is usually a casus belli (see Israel last summer with the initiation of a hot war with Hamas and Hizballah.)

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Despite their domestic wobbly-ness, I expect the Brits to play hardball on this. We should play hardball too.

I also expect the anti-war crowd to forward the following premises: (1) the captured sailors were on a secret mission to attack Iran, which was only acting in self-defense when it graciously subdued them. (2) We should just do a hostage trade with the Iranians, trading captured Iranians in Iraq back to the Islamic republic.

http://op-for.com/2007/03/britain_knew_about_the_323_kid.html

Oh, pass this on to Teddy, Kerry and the dems:

Hmong of Laos need Patriot Act waiver

There are a number of credible reports that the 2001 Patriot Act's broad definition of a "terrorist group" is preventing thousands of Hmong refugees from being granted asylum in the United States, despite the fact that companion legislation passed the same year sought to make it easier for our allies in the Vietnam War to migrate here. Many of the Hmong of Laos are still fighting and on the run from communist enemies. Others are just now surrendering, more than 30 years after Democrats in the US Congress cut off funds to them in 1975.

http://www.redstate.com/

Things to remember re: Iran:

2004 8 British sailors and their craft were seized by the Iranians

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3828377.stm

Hmmm... interesting comment (I know, the French):

You should know that the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force had rendezvoused with the USS John C. Stennis and it’s task force in the Arabian Sea Wednesday for joint missions in the global war on terror. Its arrival raises to four the number of Western aircraft carriers cruising within striking distance of Iran, including the USS Eisenhower and USS Boxer. The Boxer led group is a Expeditionary Strike Group with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit on board… The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operation Capable), or MEU(SOC), is designed to be the first on-scene in the event of crisis. It takes more than 2,100 men and women to form the 26th MEU (SOC) team.

The Charles de Gaulle is accompanied by French Task Force 473, which consists of five warships: the FNS Cassard guided missile destroyer, the FNS Tourville anti-submarine frigate, the FNS Dupleix destroyer adapted for escorting oil tankers and the FNS Marne, a command and supply vessel. Commander of the French task force is Rear Adm. Xavier Magne. Commander of the American flotilla is Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn.

A lot of hardware sailing there...