Webloggin has a wonderful story about the Royal Australian Navy showing the world how to deal with bullies.
Apparently, Iranians tried to capture some Australian Sailors in much the same way they took some British Sailors hostage. But the Australians weren’t havin’ it!
Iranian naval forces tried to capture an Australian boarding team in the Persian Gulf — even before they seized and held 15 British sailors and Marines — but where the British sailors were taken captive, the Australian sailors repelled their attackers, BBC News reported Thursday.
The Australian and British incidents were very similar, according to what British military sources told the BBC: An Royal Australian Navy team had been searching a cargo ship in the northern Persian Gulf when Iranian operatives approached in small boats. But the Aussies “were having none of it,†the BBC reported
They reboarded the ship they had just searched and trained their weapons on the Iranians, warning them “in colorful language†to back off. The Iranians withdrew. The Australian sailors were later extracted by helicopter, according to the story. Reuters reported that the boarding team was from the frigate Adelaide. It also reported that two Australian sailors were awarded medals after the incident.
Americans Soldiers still know how to fight, our politicians just won’t let them. It angers me to the core that our military has been hogtied and not allowed to use ‘deadly force’ eventhough deadly forces is used against them.
I’m glad at least one Western nation still knows that bullies will back down when confronted with someone willing to fight them.
This whole war could be done with if we showed the tiniest willingness to go to the mat.
HOOAH for the AUSSIES!!
December 8th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Aussies blowing their trumpet again, something they are the worlds best at!!