Is it some sort of variation on the sunk cost fallacy? Then again, perhaps it simply is the sunk cost fallacy? So much has been invested in the Fairford nonsense that there can be no backing away from it. Herewith, 24-year-old Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, whom Iran allegedly paid £70,000 to load the three white vans with metal drums containing petrol, water butts and smart dashcams. Hope for us all yet.
Will this be put before a jury? When last was a case laughed out? Still, if more than 20 Iranian terror plots really had been foiled in the last year, then I for one would not be remotely surprised. But like everyone else who had ever been arrested in relation this matter, both Abdulkarim and his co-accused, Nouman Essghir, have been released on bail, meaning that no one truly suspected them of terrorism. And if the USAF has fled Fairford for fear of Abdulkarim, then our own national security cannot be said to have been endangered by that flight.
We are in far more danger from the USAF, both because of the target that its presence on our soil makes us, and because of the likes of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Morris, to rescue whom the United States Marines were illegally deployed on the streets of London so that he could be flown home before the Police had the opportunity to question him about the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse images. Like the blind wheelchair-users and the octogenarian clergywomen of Palestine Action, Abdulkarim and Essghir are the least of our worries.
Nor is any defence offered by having three of Britain's four nuclear submarines at sea. Anyone whom that was supposed to impress knows all about their test failures, their misfirings, and so forth. We may as well try to deter them (from what, exactly?) with a man in a wheelchair.
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