Speaking of Iranian Parade Humiliations

I just can't resist. The Daily Mail has a story called "Iran seeks to humiliate Britain by parading captured naval boat on streets of Tehran" discussing that small boat taken by Iran in 2004 being put on parade in Tehran.

Iran turned up the heat in the propaganda war with the West yesterday by parading a Royal Navy boat through Tehran.

The boat had been captured in 2004 together with six Royal Marines and two sailors in the Shatt al Arab waterway that divides Iraq and Iran.

To outrage in Britain, Tehran humiliated the servicemen by parading them blindfolded on TV and forcing two to read out apologies after alleging they had strayed into its territorial waters - claims categorically denied by Britain.

Yesterday Iran sought to embarrass Britain once again, trundling the boat through the capital raised up on the back of a lorry.

Hundreds of thousands cheered as the boat, with messages extolling the glories of Iran's Revolutionary Guard tied to its side, passed by.

Does anyone across the pond actually feel 'humiliated' by this sillyness? Because we enjoy watching Iranian parades for the comedy value, lets evaluate a minute what true humiliation is.

How would you like to be these losers?




Lets think about this a second. If at anytime the US Navy puts a boat captured in one of its many security operations on the back of a truck, and parades it around Washington DC, I believe I speak for most Americans when I say I would be the one feeling humiliated. If that ever becomes the vehicle for US propaganda, I'm going to cry.

But even that won't be as humiliating as putting some of our nations own Navy SEALs in a divers suit to parade on a 90 degree day in a swimmer delivery vehicle being towed by trailer in our nations capital in front of the President. If that ever happens, and that is exactly what happened in that second photo in Tehran last year, I think the humiliation I will feel for my country will be so complete I may choose to play Russian roulette until I lose.

The Daily Mail story ends like this.

The West fears Tehran is covertly trying to produce nuclear bombs and that the technology used to put satellites into space could also be used for launching weapons.

Maybe there is some fear across the big pond, but if anyone actually believes that Americans 'fear' Iran, they are mistaken. I can't speak for the entire west, but speaking for all Americans I am very confident no one in the US is 'scared' of Iran, in fact I note that it becomes very, very dangerous for Iran if Americans shift their attention on Iran from concern to fear. We will all note that moment by the news reports of military ordinance hitting targets.