Playing hardball with low lifes

The amount of frustration and outrage over the Iranian abduction of 15 Brits is pretty bad. The apparent diplomatic responses by the Brits almost makes them look emasculated. Is there only one alternative to defer to those who have forced the British hand?

Complicating the whole friction is one of American and British cooperation, today, historically in the past, and maybe in the future. That the Iranian dictators have been using the technique of abduction as one of their foreign policy ploys is now founded in history. That we western types have been using our own Geneva convention standards have also been founded in history. The smarter types have even called the friction between the two standards, or methods, asymmetric warfare. I prefer the old fashioned term of low lifes vs. our standards. If you buy this latter argument, then let us go forward.

We must advance our Western culture and values by all means to the rest of the world. I am chauvinistic enough to believe what even the President says, let freedom ring. Thank goodness I will kick the bucket before this argument, if it wins, will assert itself. Then it is the problem of our progeny. Most of us don’t complain as much as offer solutions. Give peace a chance. Let our progeny sort out what we leave them. Again, if you buy this argument, then the Iranian leadership is on the losing end. This idea is not San Francisco politics, it is American.