Moved To Inaction
The ambiguity in the title is intentional, brought on by the glacial response by the transgressed parties of Iran's snatching of 15 members of the British military from Iraqi waters a week and a half ago. The captive sailors remain in Iranian custody, used for propaganda with staged/coerced "confessions" in video releases, all of which, from the capture to the manner of treatment, falls outside of Geneva Convention regulations for military personnel in uniform. Iran is a signatory to that convention.
Mark Steyn captures exquisitely the puzzled expressions on the faces of those who must devise a plan for dealing with such international nose-thumbing in his Sunday column today.
On this 25th anniversary of the Falklands War, Tony Blair is looking less like Margaret Thatcher and alarmingly like Jimmy Carter, the embodiment of the soi-disant "superpower" as a smiling eunuch.
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But, as a point of law, they are also "citizens of the European Union."...So if Europe is as it claims to be, what's it going to do about it?''
Short answer: Nothing.
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OK, well, how about the United Nations? Those student demonstrators want the execution of "British aggressors." In fact, they're U.N. aggressors. HMS Cornwall is the base for multinational marine security patrols in the Gulf: a mission authorized by the United Nations. So what's the U.N. doing about this affront to its authority and (in the public humiliation of the captives) of the Geneva Conventions?
Short answer: Nothing.
Read the whole thing. Yesterday I praised the EU for issuing a statement on the captives, and intimating that additional "appropriate measures" might be required for refusal to release them. Unfortunately they still haven't done much, and have declined economic sanctions, the simplest pressure that can be brought to bear. On the other hand, it's more than Ms. Pelosi was willing to do.
See also: Blue Crab Boulevard
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