Yeah the hijab thing is a terrible fight to pick. It’s a cultural thing, we’re at their place. Just do it. You don’t do to someone’s house who doesn’t wear shoes indoors and go off on a “we’ll at my house we wear shoes, so fuck your rules, I’m gonna go by mine”.

Or on a ship out to sea, for that matter, much less a RHIB. I spent like half an hour today explaining to a coworker why all his ‘Well, I would have done THIS...’ wouldn’t magically fix the scenario. He wasn’t having it, just kept ranting on about what an embarrassment this was for the US and those sailors. ‘Kay, guy.

My personal favorite response to this is the WSJ article this morning that was trying to make sticking point out of the Geneva Conventions, and how Iran supposedly violated the Geneva Conventions. Never mind that (A) US and Iran are not at war, so there are no POWs and (B) Giving free food, shelter and water to…

Good luck trying to get Fox to ever say that American Sailors were the “armed illegals crossing the border”.

Illegal immigrants with GUNS, no less.

Yup, basically just doing the Fox thing, which is to reflexively and automatically knee-jerk at anything that happens which may be used to paint President Obama in a negative light.

I posted this before, forgot if it was here or facebook. Retread follows:

does seem to conflict with international rules

Those are the same people who will never set foot in the sand box. Fuck them sideways with a cactus.

The sailors weren’t prisoners of war, they were illegal immigrants. You can photo them with their hands up or in cuffs and use it for internal propaganda:

Fox doesn’t do safe, responsible and adult. They consider safe, responsible and adult unAmerican and anyone who suggests people should be responsible and adult a commie Islamist.

It’s how it works in the eyes of people who believe the rest of the planet to be a colony and all those pesky governments there a bunch of wannabes who are taking something away from the great US of A and who have no authority whatsoever.

Accurate.

I tried to confront somebody on this the other day, and his opinion was that Iran should have seen these soldiers in their waters and totally ignored them.

Now if all the sailors were black, Fox news would have had no problem with that.

Thankfully the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are far more peaceable and level headed than your average American police force.

Fuck people who are chomping at the bit to start shit over there.

The best part about this outrage is that when Turkey shot a Russian plane down (killing one pilot in the process) who had also similarly and accidentally veered into Turkish territory, these shitheads were applauding Turkey’s heinous actions as totally fair and not problematic at all.

Soooo.....Fox is basically criticizing the United States military and the federal government for handling an obvious mistake in a safe, responisible and adult manner. Works for me.

We solved this problem with diplomacy instead of chest thumping or a new war? What kind of bullshit is this?