Well What Do You Know?

Iran to release the British Sailors. So much for casus belli. And here I was all set for yet another pointless war...

This seems like a pretty slick move on Iran's part and a massive PR coup. U.S. TV is, of course, searching for the ulterior motive. But I wonder how it's going to play in the rest of the world. Iran managed to bloody the nose of Britain, one of the great Western powers, and prove their own military strength. At the same time the pictures of the captured British sailors - whom the White House insisted on calling hostages - show them being well-fed and cared for. And I'm sure, say, the general Arabic public is only too ready to compare those with the pictures from Abu Gharib.