Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran!
Iran deliberately enters Iraqi territorial waters, intercepts a British vessel during an inspection, takes the British sailors hostage, brings them back to Iran, and plans to charge them with espionage?
That’s balls, my friend. Balls as big as the Lord himself.
The time for the proper answer is, of course, long past. What should have happened immediately after the taking was announced should have been a very simply worded communique:
“President Ahmadinejad - you have sixty minutes to return the sailors to Her Majesty. Failure to comply will result in the annihilation of Tehran.”
Followed immediately by the moving of every British (and possibly American) ship in the Persian Gulf to within a mile of Iranian territory, with guns trained and missiles locked.
This is hardball, folks. And Ahmadinejad just threw the first strike.