THE CAPTURE – AT 9:56 A.M. ET:  The story of the capture of ten American sailors, and their two modern patrol boats, is not going away.  Some enterprising journalists are still trying to work through the contradictions in the official versions.  (I am assisted in this post by the fine talk-show host Mike Scully, who passed on the notes of an ex-Navy man experienced in small-boat operations.)

Did the two boats actually suffer mechanical failure?  Probably not.  Maybe one boat did.  In that case, why did the operational boat not simply tow the disabled boat away from Iranian waters?

Did our sailors notify home base?  Why not?  If they did, why was help not sent?  Don't we have a single plane in the area?

Why have we not expressed official outrage about the videotaping of our sailors, kneeling in POW position, and the spreading of that tape across the Mideast?  That is a violation of international law.

Why did Grand Admiral Kerry, the idiot secretary of state, thank the Iranians for returning the sailors?  That's like thanking a thief for returning stolen property without calling him a thief.

From The Wall Street Journal:

Obama administration officials have said their initial determination is that the 10 sailors were treated well and with respect after Iranian forces detained their two small Navy boats in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday. But the videos depicted questionable actions by Iran’s elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Geneva Conventions, which govern military conflicts, ban the practice of parading prisoners for purposes of “insults” and propaganda. The State Department said Wednesday afternoon that U.S. officials were looking into the videos and would respond if the U.S. determined that the sailors were treated inappropriately.

COMMENT:  Yes, I'm sure they'll "respond," as they have responded to all the other Iranian outrages.  Yup, we eagerly await our "response."

Of course we all know what this is about.  The Iran nuclear agreement is about to be put into place, and nothing must be permitted to interfere with that awful pact because it is part of the legacy of the minigod, Barack Obama.  It is Obama's dream to have a Muslim country, Iran, as America's principal partner in the Mideast, replacing Israel.  It is a pipe dream.  While the pact was being negotiated, Iran's supreme leader was holding "death to America" rallies.  Obama and the grand admiral pretended not to notice.

The overall term for our policy is "appeasement," the granting of favors to an enemy in the hope that it can be turned into a friend.  I don't recall it ever working.  I do recall the hundreds of thousands of American graves that testify to the failure of that policy in decades past.

January 15, 2016