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> But any amount of "rightness" that Iran might have in
> making their point had went straight out the window
> when they captured the patrol. The fact that they
> continue to hold them just makes it worse.
But it seems they captured the British sea patrol in response to the U.S. Army seizing Iranian staff in Iraq on no doubt equally specious grounds. They may not be impeccably morally right, the incident at sea may even have actually taken place at a geographic point closer to a Mean High Water Line on the Iraqi shoreline than an MHWL in Iran, but the fact remains that they didn't initiate this provocation from thin air out of sheer perversity.
Yours WDK - Wkiernan at gmail.com