Freedom for British soldiers
After a few weeks in a foreign country, eating top quality food, and working on their TV persona's, the British prisoners who have been held captive by the Iranian government have been given tailored suits and business class tickets home. The flight is in the air now and will land at Heathrow in a few hours.
The politics of the situation are unfolding in the media war that is raging.
The Iranian president has been parading the prisoners on Iranian television where the prisoners were made to apologise for trespassing, thanked their captors for being so hospitable, and generally asked to be forgiven by the Iranian people.
The western news services have been berating the British prime minister for not taking firmer action (essentially for not bombing Iran). The Daily Express even called the Iranian president EVIL. How terribly sad is that one monkey of a journalist with an idiotic editor allows such ignorant drivel to be published. Millions of brain-dead Brits will be downing their pints and running for their pitch forks and torches, preparing for the invasion of Iran.
The man is far from evil! He captured soldiers who we supposedly trespassing, he held them in good conditions, fed them well, used them for some good PR, bought them suits, and sent them home. He did well to make Tony Blair look like a tool and that's what he wanted.
So the PR battle has begun - my fear is that the size of the voice will determine the winner of this propaganda war, and that voice does not below to Iran.
posted by Crusoe at 6:51 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Craig, normally read your blog and have to say its good stuff.
This time though your post is so wide of the mark it deserves comment. To say the Iranian dictator is not an evil man because he captured soldiers illegally and then looked after them (whilst still making them do things against their will) is ridiculous in the extreme. We're talking about a religious fundamentalist terrorist sponsoring man who has regularly stated his ambition to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, he is currently seeking to build nuclear weapons at the same time as supporting a guerilla civilian bombing campaign in Iraq. What a lovely chap!
"The Daily Express even called the Iranian president EVIL. How terribly sad is that one monkey of a journalist with an idiotic editor allows such ignorant drivel to be published. Millions of brain-dead Brits will be downing their pints and running for their pitch forks and torches, preparing for the invasion of Iran."
I understand the tongue in cheek nature of this comment but try and remember that Britain is not like SA, its population is able to make up its own mind, so the odd stray newspaper article or politicans comment will not lead to public riots, strikes or marchs etc.
Again, in a free country newspapers can print what they want, a freedom which I notice is beginning slowly to be impinged upon in SA.
Remind yourself how SA are involved in this, oh yes, they have a seat on the UN security council, the same security council Ahminedjad has condemned and refused to acknowledge, oh, and the same UN those soldiers where working on behalf of!
Strange that with everything going on in your own back yard, you choose the normal apathetic South African approach, ignored your domestic disasters and chose to write a political post which sides with Iran and criticises Britain.
2:15 PM
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