Iran Holds Two U.S. Navy Boats After Mechanical Problems

Man, that's hard to watch, even knowing they were safely released. Seeing them with their hands on their heads is just kind of chilling. You wonder what was going through the US soldiers' minds.

 

Sailors

 

Touche.

 

I think it would have turned out much worse without Kerry's diplomatic efforts the past several years or if there were an administration led by one of the brinkmanship-over-diplomacy right wingers. Good work Obama!

 

So, Iran kept the sailors detained for 21 days as Republicans demanded that the president get his shit together?

Oh, wait, I'm confusing it with Dubya's Hainan Island incident.

Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Iran had 150 billion reasons to turn 'em over quickly.

 

Really, I agree. This has all the hallmarks of an incident in which both sides were put in a bad position by overly gung ho lower level personnel.

 

Well, first, the $150 billion price tag that was tossed around by right wingers trying to derail the nuclear deal is a debunked lie.

It's more like $55 billion in sanctions relief and the fact that the sanctions relief became came a good reason to turn over the sailors would be another indication that making the deal is helping to stabilize diplomatic relations. This is another success to build upon.

 

What do you want Obama to do, send them back for a do-over?

 

Actually, it's just an indication that Iran really wants that fucking money. Nothing more than that.

 

Thank God Bush wasn't smart enough to attack Ireland, they got I-R-A too