I Dare You to Move
What's missing from this blog lately? Updates about the life of The Fly, and updates from the news.
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The biggest news story at the time of this posting is the situation in Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary GuardS Navy detained fifteen British military personnel on Friday. The personnel, Royal Marines and Royal Navy sailors who had just finished an inspection on an Indian ship, were detained by Iranian naval elements. Though the Iranians claim that the Brits were in Iranian territorial waters, all evidence indicates that the Brits were well within the limits of Iraqi territorial waters and enforcing a U.N. mandated inspection protocol.
Some elements of the situation would be comical if the situation weren't so serious. For example, the British government released corroborated evidence that their personnel had been well within the confines of Iraqi territory; the Iranian government then claimed that the incident happened at another location. When the Brits pointed out that the Iranian claims were also inside Iraqi waters, the Iranians recanted and offered a different claim of where the incident happened.
As the incident involved the naval elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the incident and its handling fall square at the feet of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. The wise don't speculate about whose idea the detention of these Brits was, what the internal machinations of the Iranian government have been since the incident, and what possible motives the Iranians might have. Suffice to say, the current relationship between Iran and the West grows more complicated and tense with every week that passes by.
Hopefully the Iranians will back down quickly and realize that they are completely isolated on this issue; unfortunately, recent history gives us no reason to hope for such an outcome.
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As some of you will notice, Sigurd Towrie of Orkneyjar has been able to reinstitute the Orkneyjar Photoblog. The archives are gone, but there are currently three months worth of photoblog entries (that I was completely unaware of until Monday).
In my continuing effort to provide hard news features on defense and international security topics, I'm currently working on an article about the ballistic missile defense system. I hope to post it this weekend, after which I will (finally!) start work on an article of the recent decline in pacifist policy in the Japanese and German governments.
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I had intended to post more; I'm running out of steam, so this will have to do it. Tomorrow evening, assuming I can find the article that has become Moby Dick to my Ahab this evening, I'll try to post a few more news articles, and a couple of bits and pieces about me. Carry on!
The biggest news story at the time of this posting is the situation in Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary GuardS Navy detained fifteen British military personnel on Friday. The personnel, Royal Marines and Royal Navy sailors who had just finished an inspection on an Indian ship, were detained by Iranian naval elements. Though the Iranians claim that the Brits were in Iranian territorial waters, all evidence indicates that the Brits were well within the limits of Iraqi territorial waters and enforcing a U.N. mandated inspection protocol.
Some elements of the situation would be comical if the situation weren't so serious. For example, the British government released corroborated evidence that their personnel had been well within the confines of Iraqi territory; the Iranian government then claimed that the incident happened at another location. When the Brits pointed out that the Iranian claims were also inside Iraqi waters, the Iranians recanted and offered a different claim of where the incident happened.
As the incident involved the naval elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the incident and its handling fall square at the feet of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. The wise don't speculate about whose idea the detention of these Brits was, what the internal machinations of the Iranian government have been since the incident, and what possible motives the Iranians might have. Suffice to say, the current relationship between Iran and the West grows more complicated and tense with every week that passes by.
Hopefully the Iranians will back down quickly and realize that they are completely isolated on this issue; unfortunately, recent history gives us no reason to hope for such an outcome.
As some of you will notice, Sigurd Towrie of Orkneyjar has been able to reinstitute the Orkneyjar Photoblog. The archives are gone, but there are currently three months worth of photoblog entries (that I was completely unaware of until Monday).
In my continuing effort to provide hard news features on defense and international security topics, I'm currently working on an article about the ballistic missile defense system. I hope to post it this weekend, after which I will (finally!) start work on an article of the recent decline in pacifist policy in the Japanese and German governments.
I had intended to post more; I'm running out of steam, so this will have to do it. Tomorrow evening, assuming I can find the article that has become Moby Dick to my Ahab this evening, I'll try to post a few more news articles, and a couple of bits and pieces about me. Carry on!
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