I’m sure many of you have seen this story by now, the one about the Australian sailors who were threatened by some Iranian boats. I’ve been reluctant to link to it, since it comes from al-BBC (you know, the ones that recently advertised for information about “troop movements” so they could broadcast it to anyone interested), but this link is to The Australian, so I decided to post it.

Basically, the Aussies aimed their guns and used “colorful language,” and the Iranians went away. The details are fun. And instructive. Someone should point it out to the secretary of state. The Iranian lust for martyrdom is enormously overstated.