President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defused a growing confrontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the crew's thanks and handshakes in what he called an Easter gift.The cynic in me wonders what price we or the British paid. The optimist says that whatever short term price we agreed to pay will be moot after we overthrow the Iranian regime by supporting a revolt in the near future.
I was amused to hear some Carnegie dupe on NPR say he assumed the Iranians would release the hostages soon since holding them would be unlike the Iranians. The same Iranians who held our people for more than 14 months and who in 2002 finally released the last of their Iraqi prisoners from the Iran-Iraq War that ended in 1988. Yep, holding hostages for more than a couple weeks would have been a real stretch for that crowd.
But I am glad the hostages are to be freed.
We are not done with Iran by a long shot, however. You know, the nuke and EFP issues? Remember?
