Strange Bedfellows

Great read of the conservative reaction to the release of the British hostages by Iran:

Two days ago we had a situation in which America was very nearly at war with Iran and Iran was holding British soldiers captive. Today we have a situation in which America is perhaps slightly less than very nearly at war with Iran and Iran will be releasing those hostages. And this, in the conservative mind of today, is somehow a bad thing.

Yep. It's probably also seen as a bad thing by the hardliners in Iran, who are followers of Ahmadinejad. This was clearly a decision made by the mullahs, who sought to lower tensions because they proved their point and were about to damage themselves globally. The "neocons" of Iran wanted to push this as far as it would go, which is suicide. But cooler heads prevailed.

So Iranian hardliners = conservative critics of peace. Sounds about right.

UPDATE: I wonder if this release means that the Americans actually did negotiate with "the terrists". Apparently an Iranian envoy will be allowed to look in on the five Iranian detainees in Iraq, and another was released to Tehran. Add in the fact that a botched raid of some senior security officers may have caused this whole thing, and really this was an incident wholly caused by the US, and resolved without the US being involved (which is the only way you can get anything done in the world these days).