If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available.
From Article III, United States Military Code of Conduct.
There is difference between being captured and surrendering. The former is physical state, whereas the latter is mental attitude. Lance Sijan was captured but he never surrendered.
The recently released British sailors and Marine were not the first westerners to be kidnapped by Iranian thugs. Mark Bowden, has written an account to the American hostage ordeal during the Carter administration, “Guests of the Ayatollah,” Reul Marc Gerecht reviewed Bowden’s book for Opinion Journal. An except from Gerhecht review:
John Limbert, an academically trained, Persian-speaking diplomat–who probably has the softest heart for Iran among the hostages–is in solitary confinement in the city of Isfahan, 200 miles from Tehran, after the failed Desert One rescue mission. (President Carter, after long delay, had sent fuel-tanker planes, gunships and helicopters to recapture the embassy; in a night-vision-goggle debacle set into motion by a sandstorm, a helicopter and a plane collided in the desert; the aborted the mission left the burnt remains to be toyed with by revolutionary clerics.) Mr. Limbert has no idea regarding the whereabouts of his compatriots until an Iranian guard, whom he is tutoring in English, asks him the meaning of the words “raghead,” “bozo,” “m—–f—er” and “c—sucker.” “Limbert laughed,” Mr. Bowden writes. “It warmed his heart. Someplace nearby, his captors were still coping with the United States Marine Corps.”
Our Marines may have been captured, but they never surrendered.
(H/T: Scott, Powerline )
Now jump forward the Sun (UK) interviewed the released British sailors and Marines. The Brits surrendered.
The Brits might as well cede the Falklands back to Argentina. How long before Spain asks for Gibraltar back?
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