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"Britain Declares War on Iran"

Well hopefully it wont go that far and no I havent heard about the boy who cried wolf. How'd that story end anyway?

Didn't this happen a few years ago? I'm sure it did and they just let them all go. I wonder why it's taking so long this time. Why would Iran want to mess around like that? First they gave them the GPS proof and Iran said the position was somewhere else. Which turned out to still be in Iraqi waters, then they changed it again.

They were then going to release the one woman but now they've changed their minds because apparently the UK has an "incorrect attitude".

How do you see this all ending?

spoonbeast wrote:
> Yeah
> nice to have the 15 sailors back and all, but it might have been
> too high of a price to pay.

Yeah we should refuse to take them then go in all guns blazing and get them ourselves. Give US a bloodless solution will they!? We'll show 'em!

Hedfix wrote:
> spoonbeast wrote:
> Yeah
> nice to have the 15 sailors back and all, but it might have
> been
> too high of a price to pay.
>
> Yeah we should refuse to take them then go in all guns blazing
> and get them ourselves. Give US a bloodless solution will they!?
> We'll show 'em!

Yeah Spoonbeast, who cares? 15 less people die= good.

We should threaten them with our nuclear arsenal that we lease from America and that's stored over in America, that'll learn 'em!

No country makes us look silly and gets away with it! Not since we paid back that WW2 loan!

I nearly collapsed when I read that.

It reminds me of a joke my friends always did when he sat across from you on a table, to break a silence.

".......well....." *Then in heavy accent*".....I SAY, WE BOMB RUSSIA."

Revolver Ocelot wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> spoonbeast wrote:
> Yeah
> nice to have the 15 sailors back and all, but it might have
> been
> too high of a price to pay.
>
> Yeah we should refuse to take them then go in all guns blazing
> and get them ourselves. Give US a bloodless solution will
> they!?
> We'll show 'em!
>
> Yeah Spoonbeast, who cares? 15 less people die= good.

thats right we should. Now thats diplomacy. Renegade style!

spoonbeast wrote:
> TBH i think we've just been badly humilitated. Iran has had a
> massive propaganda boost at the expense of our country. Our
> royal navy is looking like a joke, to the world we've looked
> weak and pathetic diplomatically (no doubt will affect future
> diplomatic powers and impression from other countries). Yeah
> nice to have the 15 sailors back and all, but it might have been
> too high of a price to pay.

15 sailors lives
vs
international pride and respect that hangs on a far broader range of issues than purely one incident in the Middle East (Iraq? Trade? many other issues?!). Everyone knows Iran is a tricky and difficult nation to deal with diplomatically, and the only PR coup gained will really be among those who like the Iranian government already.

So, er, no.

Well, unexpectedly it's turned out that they were kept in isolation and treated like crap. Which to be honest isn't surprising, as it's what you'd normally expect from hostage takers. The Iranian government isn't much better than the terrorists it funds, by the looks of things...

And let me put it this way: Honour and Pride, or being murderered by a force of gun-toting lunatics that outnumbers you and surrounds your boat completely? I'd have preferred to come out of it alive, myself, as the truth would eventually come through, as it has on the hostages' release.

Is it true they were in an out of bounds area?

Of course it isn't, that was an Iranian claim, part of this whole silly escapade to get the world's attention; it's clear as day that the British forces were in Iraqi waters. The Iranians confirmed this until they realised that if they were to lie, the said co-ordninates would have to be within their own waters.

They're allowed in Iraqi waters?