Update: Ahmadinejab says they will free them "as a gift." I guess there was a deal. Iran 1, Brits 0.
VDH says the hostage incident reveals the meaningless of the "alphabet" organizations:
This "incident" has proved a multilateral trifecta: a patrol sanctioned by the U.N. gets no support from the U.N., a member of the EU is left hanging in the interest of EU trade, a NATO member finds no NATO allies, other than the U.S., to offer support. So what is the purpose of these alphabetic organizations? Perhaps Ahmadinejad should start holding seminars, Henry Kissinger style, to instruct the Islamic world on how to deal with the West, given his instincts that Western rhetoric is in inverse proportion to Western willingness to stand up for a principle.
"What on earth has happened to the English?" asks Derbyshire. His answer is that multiculturalism has destroyed love of country. Maybe. His piece here at New English Review. (h/t, Small Dead Baby Seals). I agree. When they come home, these sailors deserve to be charged with something, like cooperating with their captors or whatever the Brit Naval Code contains.
Gagdad Bob calls them EUnuchs.
Dinocrat thinks the entire episode was designed as a "time-waster" and a distraction from Iran's nuke program.
