Iranian Seizure of American Sailors: The Message

Shortly after President Obama, and other global appeasers, struck a deal with Iran over their nuclear ambitions, and literally hours before Obama's State of the Union Speech, ten American U.S. Navy military personnel were taken hostage by the Iranians. The sailors were held on Iran's Farsi Island, and then released after Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry slobbered all over themselves in apologies for the Americans daring to venture into Iranian waters as a result of a mechanical failure. Vice President Biden went so far as to say that the Iranian military was simply rescuing the two U.S. Navy vessels in distress. While I watched CNN report on the story, I noticed that the not-so-fair-and-balanced cable network refused to call the detained American military personnel "hostages," and instead said that the sailors were "arrested." Using the word "arrested" implies that the Navy sailors were at fault, and deserved to be taken hostage. Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, when he came on the CNN broadcast, immediately used the word "hostage."

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