Five months ago , three UC Berkley graduates , Sarah Shourd 31 , Shane Bauer 27 , and Josh Fattal also 27, parted the comforts of home for a seemingly innocent adventure near the Iraq/ Iranian border…
That adventure took on a serious consequence when they were abducted by a group of Iranian soldiers on what is claimed to be Iranian soil …the students unfamiliar knowledge of unmarked boundaries fell on deaf Iranian ears… now five months after their arrest and incarceration , this situation has escalated into an international event…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accusing them as spy’s …demanding a trial… talking of possible trades for imprisoned Iranians…. what an International Circus .. all because three free-willed Americans lacked ( common God-given sense ) in planning their vacation…
Why on God’s green earth would ANY american citizen travel half across the globe to place their life and liberty squarely in the cross-hairs of the evil dictator Mahmoud ..voluntary suicide … respectfully , STUPID …
they probably received their rose-colored glasses from the faculty at Berkley… a tolerant group , proclaiming the underlying compassion of misunderstood Islamic citizens… the naive belief that ( muslims just want our respect) lead them like cheese in the trap, to the Iranian prison they now call home…
While i can’t help feeling compassion for their families , and remorse for the actions of well-meaning students… Why in the name of H-E-Double-L would you go to the mouth of a viper’s pit in the interest of frolic and fun..
Is the U.S. government now expected to compromise pending sanctions against a nuclear threat , in order to expedite the possible release of prisoners held on a trumped up charge .. is governments first responsibility to the students or to the collective good of the Nation… I support the latter ….
Iran now holds the stacked deck … Thanks largely to the failure of three American students to realize the perilous times in which we live and the extreme depths to which Islamic fanatics are willing to stoop … a good place to vacation is in any American destination that serves pork and cold beer… any event that sings the national anthem and salutes the flag …
you don’t see many turbine’s at a NASCAR event….if the inquisitive students had gotten rived up at Talladega or Texas Motor Speedway , they’d be home with the family right now , eating pork-loin and loving life …. a good place to be is HOME !