Re: "...unbelievable how far the West has caved..."
Last night, summing up this shameful event, led to my having a very bad thought...
The sailors went on record saying that "...they had been 'sacrificed' by their government"...and "...were following orders when they 'sailed into Iran's territorial waters...".
Then followed several days of the Blair Government's "intense negotiations"; after which Blair announced that Britain "would NEVER AGAIN intrude into Iranian waters".
Suddenly, it occurred to me, that this whole event had been planned by Blair & friends, using their men and women in harms way, for their indended goal of forcing Britain to "cut a separate deal with Iran"...
"If you promise to keep the oil coming, we'll promise to go home and abandon our obligations to America as well as anyone else...go ahead and make all the bombs you want...destroy Israel if you choose...we are cowards and we hereby publicly surrender".
I hope I'm wrong about this, but something stinks to high heaven here.