To accompany your post, I thought you'd be interested in some public opinion data on Iran. Check it out...Overwhelmingly, the public embraces diplomatic measures, with 44% of those surveyed favoring diplomacy with Iran and an addition 28% backing economic sanctions. Favor for military action is in the single digits. Our anxiety indicator is currently at 137 on a 200-point scale, edging toward the 150 point mark that we would consider a crisis of confidence in government policy. Go to http://www.publicagenda.org/fore...olicy/ index.cfm to check out the fourth edition of our “Foreign Policy Index.”
William Hallowell | Homepage | 04.04.07 - 1:19 pm | #

Thanks, William. Doing a new post about it now, and I'll make a point of reading through that report ASAP.
Demosthenes | Homepage | 04.04.07 - 3:38 pm | #

The action was a goodwill gesture for the Iranian new year...

except they were seized just after the persian new year. (norouz is march 21st).

maybe a nicer new year's present would not be detaining them in the first place.
upyernoz | Homepage | 04.04.07 - 4:19 pm | #

sorry, i meant to say "...would be to not detain them..."
upyernoz | Homepage | 04.04.07 - 4:20 pm | #