April 05, 2007
Stiff upper lip redux
Allah makes some good points about bravery and wonders if the unsmiling Brit in the pictures was the one held in solitary. Click all his links, there's some great stuff there.
Posted by Karol at April 5, 2007 05:21 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: British+Iran+Hostages
I'm not sure I would read this the same as Allah. The guy in grey with the "thousand watt smile" may be the one who was mistreated. After all, he'd be the happiest to get out. And wouldn't you be the grumpy one if you left your dignity in Iran?
Posted by: Eric at April 5, 2007 05:49 PMInteresting. Good point. I think we're just looking for a hero in all of this.
Posted by: Karol at April 5, 2007 05:50 PMAll around the internet, there's lots of folks condemning these British soldiers and their immediate capitulation.
There's one thing no one's talking about: the Iranians had a female captive.
If I had a crewmate who was a woman (grim as that one may have been), and our captors said "Do what I say, gladly, enthusiasticaly and smiling, or I will bring in a division of my most savage warriors to gang, ehm, violate this woman..." well, I probably would have rolled right over too.
There's a head-scarf-wearing elephant in the room everyone seems unwilling to acknowledge. You can threaten me and my male companions with torture, and even torture us. But once a guy is responsible for a woman being violated like that: fight over.
Posted by: Sean at April 6, 2007 04:24 AM
