Let's Keep A Bit Of Perspective

Based on their news conference today, those newly returned from Iran have not been subjected to anything not used as an interrogation technique by our own and everybody else's forces. They have been trained to withstand these unpleasantnesses, and they have done so. Good for them.

So let's keep a bit of perspective: as I heard someone say on the radio yesterday, one would think, from the way that people were going on, that they were a ballet troupe which had been held for over a year. They are sailors and marines, and have been gone for less than a fortnight.

And they were safer and better looked after than they would be if sent back to southern Iraq, which it now appears that they are going to be, "armed" with whatever broomhandles, and conkers on strings, that Tony Blair (egged on by the Tories, with their own disgraceful record of starving the Forces) can be bothered to provide for them.

I have no doubt that, should they have found themselves in any applicable situation, then the Iranians would have tended their wounds, changed their dressings, emptied their colostomy bags, or what have you. More than can be said for the British, I am deeply ashamed to say.