Iran won sailors battle with Britain: Bolton
Posted on April 10, 2007
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The Iran / British hostage situation is now over. Everything is back to normal and all the children in the world have a stick of beef jerky in their dirty, poverty-stricken hands and warm clothes on their shirtless backs. Peace and happiness abounds! Yay!
NOT!
The captured British military persons (aka. the hostages) have been given tacit approval to sell their hostage stories for monetary gain and a mad bully now knows he can do what he wants with impunity.
Iran won sailors battle with Britain: Bolton — “This passive, hesitant, almost acquiescent approach barely concealed the Foreign Offices real objective: keeping the faint hope alive that three years of failed negotiations on Irans nuclear weapons programme would not suffer another, this time possibly fatal, setback.”
The lesson for Iran was that “it probed and found weakness.” Ahmadinejad could now “undertake equal or greater provocations, confident he need not fear a strong response,” Bolton wrote.
“Emboldened as Iran now is, and ironically for engagement advocates, it is even less likely there will be a negotiated solution to the nuclear weapons issue, not that there was ever much chance of one.
Ahmadinejad has been called a bully, a madman, a hitler in a headscarf, and other names — all not too far from the truth. But one thing is for sure, although the Mullacracy in Tehran has their eyes on his every action, this wily fox is not someone to underestimate.
Care has to be given to each and every tense situation — to use diplomacy or force. And although the nations of the world will condemn every unilateral movement of force or military pressure by Britain or America or Israel or whomever upon any Islamic or Arab nation, America and every freedom loving allied nation must keep resolve and a firm backbone in the face of this petite devil. Otherwise, we all become as the whimpering child in the playground deathfuly afraid of the neighborhood bully.
And it looks like Bolton was right, Iran won this round. Iron-clad borders, notwithstanding, this is a recipe for disaster.
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