I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Iran commits an act of war
March 23, 2007
If the British Ministry of Defence is correct in what it says here, and if it does turn out that Iranian forces were involved, then Iran is guilty of committing an act of war against Britain.
Fifteen British Navy personnel have been captured at gunpoint by Iranian forces, the Ministry of Defence says.
The men were seized at 1030 local time when they boarded a boat in the Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, which they suspected was smuggling cars.
The Royal Navy said it was doing everything it could to secure the release of its personnel, who are based on HMS Cornwall.
It added that the men had been carrying out a routine patrol in Iraqi waters.
The Ministry of Defence said: “The group boarding party had completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.
“We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level.
“The British government is demanding the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment.”
It is understood the men being held are safe and well.
Abduction of one nation’s military forces by the forces of another nation, and this in a third nation which is neither the nation of origin of the abductors or the abductees, is an act of war…is it not?
Iran has been getting progressively more bold in its actions, what with its continued development of nuclear technology and its flippant, almost childish “we’ll keep doing it if you tell us we can’t, so you’d better tell us we can!” attitude toward world pressure to stop that research. And let’s not even get in to the discussion of the Iranian president’s Israel-related rhetoric and his pronouncements of genocide and Holocaust denial (there’s that classic Muslim doublethink, eh? “The Jewish Holocaust never happened, but it sure seems like a good idea!”).
Iran openly finances terror (i.e. Hezbollah), and now it seems that Iranian troops, operating in a foreign nation, are gleefully abducting soldiers of other nations.
Precisely how many more provocations will the West tolerate before we bring the swatter down — heavily — on this nation that is trying so very hard to play the role of the annoying insect?
