Icing on the capitulation cake

[bemildred]

WASHINGTON - Name, rank, serial number and your signature on the dotted line. No sooner had Britain's 15 "kidnapped" sailors and marines returned from their harrowing "hostage" experience at the hands of Iran than some were lining up to sell their stories to the British press.

And no sooner had they been accused of "acting like reality-TV stars" than they became a punching bag for neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks in the United States who cast the sailors' "humiliating" behavior and their government's equally "bungled" response as an affront to the Anglosphere and its interests in the Middle East.

"If there has ever in history been a faster, more humiliating submission to Stockholm syndrome, we're unaware of it," read an editorial in the New York Post, a neo-conservative daily owned by Australian-born Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. "But aren't British service personnel trained for this sort of thing?"

Mark Steyn, a neo-conservative syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, was equally unimpressed when he wrote, "The Queen's Navee had been demobbed. The token gal was dressed up as an Islamic woman, and the 14 men had been kitted out in Ahmadinejad's leisurewear."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID12Ak03.html

[rurallib]

1. Ever wonder how some of these RW "heroes" would act

in a similar situation? Like sniveling cowards would be my guess.

[yurbud]

2. of course they're mad. Brit sailors job was to be killed to provide an excuse to invade Iran

not to be well-treated by ping pong allowing terrorists.