America's Shame: Iran Hostages in Captivity Seven Years Total

As of this writing, the Free The Hikers website reports that American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have now been held in Iranian custody without official charge for 623 days and 15 hours, or 1.7 years each. Both American and Iraqi authorities believe the two young men were snatched by IRGC troops near the Iran-Iraq border way back on July 31, 2009 while cross-country hiking. President Obama has yet to address this jacking with diplomatic resolve, instead spouting this noncomittal paean typical of a community organizer and "advocate for social and environmental justice":

“I want to be perfectly clear: Sarah, Shane and Josh have never worked for the United States government. They are simply open-minded and adventurous young people who represent the best of America, and of the human spirit. They are teachers, artists, and advocates for social and environmental justice.”

How about adding, "and if you don't send them back, we'll kick your fascist hostage-taking asses!" Obama is no Teddy Roosevelt. Congress isn't much better. The Kobluchar-Franken resolution was passed in the Senate back in May of last year. Yet little action has been taken since by any branch of the United States government to compel the fascist Iranian Islamist extremist regime to release two innocent American citizens, whose worst offense would have been straying across Iran's unmarked border. State's main and Iran pages don't even mention them. There is also the case of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran on March 3, 2007, and is believed to be alive and in Iranian custody. Time to bring them home. These are fellow citizens whose families very much care for and love them. Who in the US government is speaking up or acting for them? Who is taking concrete action to obtain their release? Could the Iranian government punk us any harder? Could our nation not appear weaker? In that respect, President Jemmah Cahtah II has now far outdone his namesake's record of 444 days of hostage crisis hell. If we as a country are going to get involved militarily in regime change and stopping the wanton mass slaughter of the innocent in the Middle East, maybe we should do it to a country that is not only holding its own people hostage but ours as well. This Iranian flouting of international law must end. It has dragged on for far too long. My Fellow Americans, this is nothing less than a national disgrace. Even worse, it is a burden on the hearts of fellow Americans we are obliged as a people to share and lift. Might I suggest a few well-placed Tomahawks and JDAMs on Basij and IRGC installations or terror training camps if the Ahmadinejad regime fails to comply within a week? We've given them way too much time as it is, and let's face it. It's the only diplomacy the Islamists really understand.