Hearts of balsa?

The farce that is now turning to tragedy as Britain's once proud navy is humiliated and humbled, hardly needs extra comment from this blog which has been warning of Britain's direction and its inevitable consequences over many topics and several years. It does at least, however, now seem as if the public is beginning to notice - but only the May elections will really tell. A good result for Cameron's Tories will quickly make plain no real change is yet desired! Two related points I will highlight on the Iranian capture of Britain's mariners that to me have lacked sufficient comment elsewhere, are the following: First - the telling question about the type of country that would send a mother of a three year old to war put by the President of Iran? Second - further emphasizing the rot and insanity of the political correctness that has created such a farce and the Navy's capitulation to it, the photographs of the returning woman, so obese that she would have been declared unfit to serve at sea in any previous time. If she were not so large when her tour of duty on board commenced, what sort of discipline and command was in operation on board that could allow her to reach that size? Fearing for her life during her captivity as she is today shamefully allowed to so profitably describe, she surely cannot argue that she gained weight while captive and fearful of rape and her life? As her co-hostages seem of normal physique typical for servicemen, one must assume different rules apply to females on board RN ships, in which case what point the cause of equality of the sexes that supposedly is the sole reason for her being on board. When I was at sea women on board were considered unlucky - the events that led to this mother's capture cannot possibly however be put down to luck good or otherwise, incompetence of command and muddle in political realities exclude any element of chance in this sorry incident. UPDATE 10th April, 2007 Read more in a good article in today's Daily Telegraph, linked here.