Columnist Mark Steyn, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times online, has an excellent article on Iran's capture in international waters of 15 British sailors and marines. Steyn scorns the impotence of the European Union and the United Nations. He finds Tony Blair's response to Iran similar to that of Jimmy "The Wimp" Carter.
Steyn's most insightful point is that we are trying to deal with a transnational Islamic Revolution using institutions developed to deal with hostile nation states. The old institutions don't work and successful new institutions haven't emerged.
