Chapter 59.1: Back to Bangers 'n Mash

The news that Iranian President Ahmadinejad has pardoned the British naval officers who his country allege invaded their waters and that he has bestowed honors on the Iranians who captured him strikes me as a direct insult to the British people. Ahmadinejad is not stupid, and he's aware that the British are weary of seeing their troops in Iraq fighting a war that most Britons don't believe in. But I wonder whether they're so dismayed by the war that this incident and Iran's response doesn't spur them to soldier on with increased resolve. Time will tell.