Matthew Norman: We’ve lost the authority to lecture Iran

Upsetting as the vision of a distressed young mother certainly is, in the nuclear scheme of things the manipulation of LS Turney for propaganda purposes looks a fairly small step on the long, winding and disturbingly signpost-free road towards regional nuclear proliferation. The anguish expressed here by politicians and pundits stems less, one suspects, from any genuine fear for the officers’ safety – the Iranians may have become audacious, but they are not suicidally stupid and will release them unharmed, if traumatised, as in the similar incident of three years ago – than wounded pride that the naval officers of a once-dominant maritime power should be treated with such undisguised disdain.

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Posted on March 30th, 2007 at 8:00am under Chicken Nuggets, Iran, T.W.A.T.

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