Monty Python comedian Terry Jones wrote this fantastic opinion piece in the Guardian on the capture of British naval officers by Iran. [Thanks to Crooks and Liars for pointing it out.]
Here is a highlight:
The true mark of a civilised country is that it doesn't rush into charging people whom it has arbitrarily arrested in places it's just invaded. The inmates of Guantánamo, for example, have been enjoying all the privacy they want for almost five years, and the first inmate has only just been charged. What a contrast to the disgraceful Iranian rush to parade their captives before the cameras!That's the spirit! What we really ought to do is start detaining prisoners at Disney World. We can make them dress as characters and undergo horrible tortures like this poor bastard: The happiest place on earth, indeed! Not only would the prisoners be forced to think about their crime, which more often than not is simply being Muslim, but the terror-ists would have to chew on some good old fashioned A-merican values. Because it really is all about values - and Jones raises this in the closing of his article:
As Stephen Glover pointed out in the Daily Mail, perhaps it would not be right to bomb Iran in retaliation for the humiliation of our servicemen, but clearly the Iranian people must be made to suffer - whether by beefing up sanctions, as the Mail suggests, or simply by getting President Bush to hurry up and invade, as he intends to anyway, and bring democracy and western values to the country, as he has in Iraq.Beautifully put. A+. You win, Terry Jones!
Well, at least somebody is winning something these days.
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