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To: elmatador who wrote (16511)	4/5/2007 3:54:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219786

ElM, you WANT Britain to be humiliated, but I have read all that and more and don't see any reason whatsoever for Blair or Britain to feel "humiliated". On the contrary, they seem to have been the most sensible and reasonable of all participants and commentators in the incident. You are humiliating yourself with your wish for British humiliation, and the Iranians humiliated themselves with their silly hostage-taking. The Americans looked silly with their shoot 'em up suggestions [on how they would have responded] - it would have been a shambles. The only grown-ups seem to have been the British. The Iranians seem to have realized, somewhat belatedly, that they were on the proverbial hiding to nothing. The soldiers [one I saw anyway] were even so polite as to shake hands with President Ahmindehijihad, though he hesitated slightly before deciding to be gentlemanly and acknowledge the settlement of the situation. He didn't see a need to embarrass the President. Good form old chap. The shooting of the Brazilian by the police was enough humiliation of the British to keep them going for a while. But it's a compliment to Britain that it was such a very big deal. Such a thing happening in Brazil would be met with a shrug of the shoulders and the thought, "What else can you expect from them?" Mqurice