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Originally Posted by Kipruss
I wonder why the escort helicopter didn't radio the team doing the search to say that there was potential trouble on the way and that it was time to head back to the ship? Maybe they were warned but couldn't get to safety.
This event is even a concern to NZ because we occasionally send a Frigate on maritime enforcement operations. I'm not sure how I would react if it was our troops having been captured. Probably with anger. Fortunately i'm not a polititian who could get a lot of people killed with action for the sake of action.
My prediction is that they will be released within a few weeks. I hope so.
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'A few WEEKS'?!? You 'HOPE SO'? Friend, I don't want this to sound like an insult, but this mindset is exactly WHY these guys were taken! It's weak, and as the saying goes, 'Weakness IS a provocation.'
No, 'a few weeks' to negotiaite and dither and cut deals and the Iranians end up with some concessions for us to buy back something we already own and that Iran has no RIGHT to is a LOSS, and a HUMILIATION. I'm sorry; I'm not used to paying for something that's mine.
Blow something up, and don't even send anything through diplomatic channels that sounds like a demand for the release of the fifteen. They know what they've done; they know what we mean. It's up to them to crawl to US to get them out of this. For once, let this be THEIR hostage crisis.
