Goose Green 25 years on and the need for Britain to once again launch a military response

25 years on from Goose Green Britains are again being held by a hostile foreign power. As then British opinion is lazy, and hostile to the government all be it for different reasons.

The Iranians have held the Marines for long enough. Irrespective of whether this was planned from Tehran or a local commander acting on his own initiative in an attempt to gain a gold star from the regime, it is time to threaten a military response. Special Forces landing and destroying a port, or if it is known where the sailors are, rescuing them is the option that should be selected. Missile strikes would do more harm than good. Whilst the risks would be high, a successful mission would undermine the Iranian regime and the West is sound enough financially to ride out oil spiking to over $100 a barrel as we are far less dependent on it than in the mid 1970s.

It is time to deal with the Iranian regime before the situation gets even more out of control.

Outcome of this situation could well be influenced by history. Brown will be PM within six months, and so it is just possible that a repeat of January 1981 will happen in that Tehran will wait until the new leader is installed before releasing the hostages. If this doesn't happen then Brown might well resort to military action to show he is a strong leader not to be messed with.

Finally, it is time for the Iraqi government to get off its butt and go to the UN and complain about the violation of it's territorial waters by a hostile power that is supporting part of the insurgency.

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I have posted this comment on the Guardian Comment is free website so it should be interesting to see how the people who post respond.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/hossein_derakhshan/2007/04/hossein_derakhshan_1.html