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| IRAN: test test... this is just a test y'all |
| Monday, April 02, 2007 |
Iranian state television aired new video Sunday showing two of the 15 captured British sailors pointing to a spot on a map of the Persian Gulf where they were seized and acknowledging it was in Iranian territorial waters. This was just starting to play out as boring to me as reality television. It's something Iran feels they need to do; not to prove a point, but yet to test our will.
I am convinced of this for a few reasons.
A. Iran's support inside the country for it's rulers is depleting fast (this proves as a way to nationalize the issues and try to claim easy political capital over blaming the west for their domestic turmoil)
B. Iran's leaders are well aware of the impending attack on their soil if they were to harm the British sailors held captive
C. And this I believe is perhaps the biggest reason for all of this, but again this is just my take on it.. Iran, among many other of our potential adversaries have watched as our President's support crumbles from within his own party. And they know how politics work all too well and understand that Bush's hands could be getting tied up to launch a war against Iran. So to see that the west's domestic backing has completely depleted; the Iranian government can create little tests to see how ill American's are getting of war and trying to continue to push the idea that Bush and Blair are just warmongers and try to unite some of the middle eastern countries under that same banner.
Through all of this I believe that it is not our position to get involved in this prisoner situation. It is between Iran and Great Britain. But if it were to escalate militarily, we better back the country that has been backing us so much of the time in our nation's history.
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