West's the loser in more ways than one
April 4th 2007 15:52
The whole Iranian hostage drama comes to a nauseating end after the Iranian Thugs wrenched out every kind of advantage out of the situation.
Did they just agress on Britain and had the advantage of seeing the nation bend over its backwards to accomodate him? Check.
Did they also get the chance to heap humiliation on the West and then use the incident for their own self-glorification? Check.
The discharge is not coming without a cost to the US. Here's what it had to forego:
As for the British, if Tony Blair had licked the feet of Ahmenedijehad's botos, the humiliation wouldn't have been more gratuitous:
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BTW, the madman has a moral for all of us, folks:
Now that the danger is passed, the EU comes forwar to stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" with the Brits. Couldn't they have used another word at least?
The West is a a spent force. It's dead. It's gone. It's over.
Did they just agress on Britain and had the advantage of seeing the nation bend over its backwards to accomodate him? Check.
Did they also get the chance to heap humiliation on the West and then use the incident for their own self-glorification? Check.
The discharge is not coming without a cost to the US. Here's what it had to forego:
The announcement came after Iran's state media reported that an Iranian envoy would be allowed to meet five Iranians detained by U.S. forces in northern Iraq. Another Iranian diplomat, separately seized two months ago by uniformed gunmen in Iraq, was released and returned Tuesday to Tehran.
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n his speech, Ahmadinejad also said the British government had "sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry pledging that it (entering Iranian waters) will not happen again." There was no immediate confirmation about the letter from London.
BTW, the madman has a moral for all of us, folks:
He criticized Britain for deploying Leading Seaman Faye Turney, one of the 15 detainees, in the Gulf, pointing out that she is a woman with a child.
"How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don't they respect family values in the West?" he asked of the British government.
"How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don't they respect family values in the West?" he asked of the British government.
Now that the danger is passed, the EU comes forwar to stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" with the Brits. Couldn't they have used another word at least?
The West is a a spent force. It's dead. It's gone. It's over.
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