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health Secretary in Tony Blairs Cabinet was upset by pictures broadcast from Iran of the 15 captive Brit ish sailors and marines reported Christo Pher Booker of the sunday Telegraph it was deplorable that the woman hos Tage should be shown smoking Hewitt said this sends completely the wrong Mes Sage to our Young peo ple when liberals cower when Petty thugs make threats which is pretty much whenever Petty thugs make conservatives understandably suspect them of cowardice but Hewitt s bizarre response to her country humiliation suggests some thing else is at work the most remarkable aspect of this most recent iranian hostage crisis was the lengths to which so Many prominent people in the West went to make excuses for inexcusable iranian behaviour Patrick Cockburn writing in the Brit ish newspaper the Independent said the crisis was americas fault because the us military had captured six suspected iranian intelligence officers in a raid in Northern Iraq on Jan 11 Iran has been supplying Money weapons most us troops killed in Iraq in the last year have been killed by Irani a manufactured improvised explosive training and perhaps More to various insurgent groups in Iraq three of the six arrested in the Erbil raid were members of the buds Force the overseas terrorist Arm of the iranian revolutionary guards corps they May have been directing terrorist attacks the abortive Erbil raid provided a dangerous escalation in the confrontation Between the us and Iran which ultimately led to the capture of 15 British sailors and marines Cockburn said according to this version of events if doone5bury by a Trudeau most americans War got you Vouk though vou15 the United states and Britain would just allow Iran to run roughshod Over Iraq Supply terrorists with weapons and suit cases of Cash everything would be just Fine said Kenneth Timmerman a journalist who writes frequently about Iran some liken Liberal appeasers to those britons who wanted to make a Deal with Adolf Hitler after the fall of France in 1940 that s unfair to those appeasers their attitude was not honorable but it was reasonable the nazis then possessed a substantial advantage in Mili tary Power today Liberal appeasers embrace Dhim Metude even though if s the West that has a huge military and eco nomic advantage in Britain schools Are dropping references to the holocaust to avoid offending muslims the daily mail reported in min Neapolis some Muslim cab Drivers refuse to pick up Blind people with see Ingene dogs and Muslim clerks in Gro Cery stores refuse to wait on customers who want to buy pork products report ers for the Minneapolis Star Tribune think minnesotans should adjust their be Havior to accommodate the muslims liberals Are not so much terrified by the threat Radical islam poses As they Are oblivious to it a recent poll indicated a majority of democrats Are More worried about global warming Man they Are about islamic terror while Many Liber als do indeed need to have backbones surgically inserted More need to have their Heads examined one Dummy shimmy is House speaker Nancy Pelosi who is under the mistaken impression she was also elected Secre tary of state she was unwilling to bring up for a vote a Resolution supporting the British in the hostage crisis but was eager to suck up to syrian dictator Bashar Assad the Washington Post was not impressed by Kelosis bumbling foray into foreign policy As any Diplomat with knowledge of the Region could have told is Pelosi or Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off uncharged that he orchestrated the no question that fee enemy has tried to file test Way Tod Fiat Olmas Aio Olio do Flat of an ideology of Hope murder of former lebanese prime minis Ter Rafiq Hariri Britain and America apparently gave up Little to secure release of the hostages Timmerman thinks a quietly delivered threat of Force and the arrival of an air Craft Carrier to make it credible was Crit ical to obtaining their release but Iran won because Iran suffered no consequences for its outrageous behaviour most parents understand that if you give ice Cream to a 2yearold each time he throws a Tantrum he will have More tantrums not fewer but liberals have convinced themselves that the Way to moderate the behaviour of islamic thugs is to offer them apologies and concessions whenever they behave thuggish by the infidels Allah is about to destroy he first makes mad i suspect that Mah Moud the magnanimous As Boston her Ald City editor Jules Crittenden has dubbed the president of Iran believes this and with liberals taking his Side against their own governments who can blame him Jack Keily is the National affairs writer for the Pittsburgh pos Gazette and the Toledo Ohio Blade a former Marine and Green Beret he was a Deputy assistant Secretary of the air Force in the Reagan administration his column appears regularly in stars and stripes Tel us what you think Star band stripes we Cornes your 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