What are the “300″ saying?
The question is almost worth as much as the answer. The fact that Iran has to ask that question and doesn’t know the answer forces them to try to act to counter the effects of multiple different answers, sometimes to cross purposes I’ll bet.
sdemetri:
If Sunni militias are fighting Shiite militias, as news accounts report daily, the logic of Iran funding both sides is faulty, if not ridiculous.
Is the phrase “playing both ends against the middle” unfamiliar to you? Iran doesn’t need to have any one side win; they need to have enough civil strife that everyone loses and the country splits apart. Then they get to come in and cherry-pick the pieces.
nate zuckerman:
Iran grabs Brits; US (there is no multinational force) grabs Iranians…what does this tell us?
That you apparently think that British subjects are American citizens. Newsflash; in English, “multi-” means “more than one”.
Scotty:
Why did the gutless wonder commanding the nasty-looking destroyer the Brit. sailors came from not interdict the Iranian gunboats and nip the problem in the bud?
I am tempted to join the chorus agreeing with you, but a) we don’t know the British commander’s ROE, and b) we don’t know what the odds were that blowing the hell out of the Iranians would have gotten the 15 British sailors killed in the bargain and what calculation the British equivalent of the JAG requires of the commander in such a situation. This law is being fought by military lawyers a lot more than previous ones.
