why is it skin off your back ? You dont belong to Iran or UK as far as I recollect ...
No, I'm an American, and the Brits are allies of the US. I'm sure the mullahs would have preferred to get some Americans (they already tried several times), but they got some Brits instead. Sanctions are coming up in the UN, some high-level Iranians just defected, they are collecting bargaining chips. It's their standard MO.
I do have a side in this conflict, and the US and Britain are on one side of it, and Iran is very much on the other.
As for Cockburn, his only side is against whatever the US is doing. His faux humanitarian concerns are exposed everytime he completely fails to note war crimes on the other side, or demand from them what he demands from the US. He doesn't care whose human rights they abuse. He also doesn't care how useful a fellow traveler he is to them, the point that concerns me most of all. There is an information war on, and there is a large crowd who is, as Glenn Reynolds puts it, "Not anti-war. Just on the other side." |
