Sunday, October 14, 2007
Iran's Israeli hostages
Presumably, few readers of this blog will be surprised to learn that two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah last year have somehow -- say it ain't so -- ended up in Iranian custody.
Apparently the quantum of gullible people who believe that Hezbollah was not acting as Iran's proxy is finally so small that Iran is now willing to negotiate with Germany over their release.
Of course, nobody -- not even the usual apologists for Iran -- is demanding that the Islamic Republic simply release these Israeli prisoners because it is the lawful and moral thing to do. That would be asking a bit too much from a government that has since its founding regarded the taking of hostages as diplomacy by other means.
5 Comments:
By 
, at
Sun Oct 14, 09:44:00 PM:
And so I must ask where is Gilad Shalit? He too has a family and he too was wrongly taken.
By 
Georg Felis, at
Mon Oct 15, 12:33:00 AM:
They're just transferring them to a country that has more experience in holding hostages for extended periods. Of course this brings the normal cries from leftists claiming they are exporting jobs...
By Unknown, at
Mon Oct 15, 12:48:00 AM:
Maybe we could trade these soldiers for the 9,000,000 Moslems living in the U.S.
By Georg Felis, at
Mon Oct 15, 11:06:00 AM:
Nope, I doubt it. The vast majority of them came here to get away from that nutty place.
By Unknown, at
Tue Oct 16, 02:20:00 PM:
So, we're "fighting them there" so we can import them here.
Oh, Lordy.
