We saw 28 years ago that any sign of weakness is not the answer.  It just emboldens them to new crimes.  Appeasement only works when you are ready to surrender.

Every time we look weak we get attacked. Every time we try to negotiate we get a telephone pole shoved up our butts. The Brits are getting to do the same thing. The problem is if anyone attacks Iran we will have a global war on us. If the Brits don’t do anything but talk they look weak but it is still the best strategy. Iran is worried about our being in Iraq and the success we are having. So far Iran has lost three generals captured and being interrogated by the USA. A few hundred Iranian troops with all their pay records also being interrogated. At the same time they have the internal problems of not enough stuff to keep the people happy and they want to be friends with America. While the leadership wants to bring about world war. We had a simple way of dealing with terrorist. We hunted them down and killed them off the books. It worked all through Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush then ended with Mr. Clinton. No matter how bad it sounds to the peace groups it worked keeping the peace groups alive to complain about how mean America is but we did not lose thousands of Americans in a single day or attack. Back then the best they could do was kill in groups of tens rather than groups of thousands. Time to go back to the same old thing.

Thanks for comments. Little Ahmed has, today, "gifted" us the release of the sailors and I am pleased about that. I'm not sure what the hidden agenda is here but there is sure to be one!

He is acting like he just granted absolution to GB.

We freed some of their people captured in Iraq.

Where is the world outrage againt this? They violated the Geneva Convention when they put the hostages on TV and coerced sataements out of them. No outrage?

A couple of rednecks stack up some naked Iraqis and we're STILL hearing about it, years later. They weren't beheaded, tortured with an electric drill, vivisected, amputated, etc.

The world is only outraged when America is involved or can be pointed at as the bad guys.