skippy the bush kangaroo

Saturday, April 07, 2007

what are friends for, if not to bomb little upstart arabic countries?

via liberal catnip, we learn that the us was just itchin' to help out our ol' buddy england, presumably by bombing iran back to the stoneage (which, admittedly, is not that long a distance). uk guardian:

in the first few days after the captives were seized and british diplomats were getting no news from tehran on their whereabouts, pentagon officials asked their british counterparts: what do you want us to do? they offered a series of military options, a list which remains top secret given the mounting risk of war between the us and iran. but one of the options was for us combat aircraft to mount aggressive patrols over iranian revolutionary guard bases in iran, to underline the seriousness of the situation.
not only did the british government decline awol's kind offer, they also asked the u.s. to keep the testosterone levels as low as possible:

at the request of the british, the two us carrier groups, totalling 40 ships plus aircraft, modified their exercises to make them less confrontational.

the british government also asked the us administration from mr bush down to be cautious in its use of rhetoric, which was relatively restrained throughout.
now if we can only get the british government to talk to dick cheney.

addendum: the moderate voice has culled responses to this crisis from various sources, including tehran blogs and fred thompson.

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posted by skippy at 9:13 PM |

4 Comments:

Yes, yes, yes!
commented by Blogger No Blood for Hubris, 9:42 PM PDT  
Haha skippy. I'm half Iranian and I've got to tell you that if Iranians catch you calling them Arabic or Arabs, they'll totally nuke you with the nuclear bombs they don't have. Different language, different ethnicity, different everything.
commented by Anonymous arlen, 10:01 PM PDT  
How come nobody ever wants to bomb anyone back to the Jazz Age?
commented by Blogger Thers, 11:39 PM PDT  
i'm not half iranian, but like arlen, i was gonna point out that iranians are not arabs (well, most of them aren't).
commented by Blogger upyernoz, 5:40 AM PDT  

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