Wildly Inappropriate Hostage Reaction Watch
MEMRI TV has the video from Iranian television of those captured British sailors confessing to trespassing in Iranian waters and apologizing abjectly.
British journalist Matthew Norman agrees with the Iranians: We’ve lost the authority to lecture Iran. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.)
UPDATE at 3/30/07 8:28:57 am:
To make one thing clear, I am not blaming the sailors in any way, even if they did apologize without being under duress. Why should they make a stand, when the British government is being so utterly spineless? The hostages know the UK isn’t going to back them up. The “inappropriate reaction” is the government’s.
UPDATE at 3/30/07 9:00:13 am:
More at Hot Air: Iran begging for some daddy time with Blair.