I am greatly distressed by the nonchalance with which this whole thing is being treated. I know you don't want to give them more leverage than they already have, but there comes a time for action and if this isn't it then we might as well fold up our tents and head for home.
I fear this thing is going to grind on for weeks and weeks, if not longer. Every day it's not solved by direct and compelling military force to the disadvantage of the Iranians is one more day they gain confidence.
Our enemies, and the Lefties/MSM, keep adding irons to the fire. We have not been able to address a single one of them simply because every day brings a new one. Don't you know this is going to be used by the Lefties/MSM to add fuel to the fire!
The Iranians must go to bed every night thinking how stupid and weak and feckless we are. They keep upping the ante and we keep playing the game.
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.