The kidnapping of the British sailors by the mullahocarcy of Iran is fast reaching the stage where we will find out whether this will be remembered as a fiasco or as a crisis. Here's the Telegraph with the rather clear point that Blair's "point of not swaggering on the world stage as if he were the leader of a militarily powerful country, willing and able to use force unilaterally" has not given the British personnel a get-out-jail-free card. The editorial misses the boat however (pun intended) on the charge that the US media is ignoring the Fiasco/crisis because we have no desire to help militarily. Luckily plenty of people in the comments section called them to task for this.
Also from the Telegraph we have Niall Fergusson's opinion along with a little history...
Iran targeted the Security Council's weakest link: us
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