Hostage Crisis

There has been much debate over the last few days surrounding the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis and I, like many others think that it is appalling that they were allowed to profit from their ordeal. Even though Des Brown has now said that in hindsight he would have handled the situation differently, I find it unbelievable that he could not possibly have envisaged the outrage that this would cause.

It was a terrible thing for them to go through; something that I think the majority of us could not imagine and I feel that it is important for their stories to be heard. However hard it was though, at the end of the day it is a risk that comes along with the job, a risk that they would be well aware of.

The best that can be done now is to try and salvage some respect from this PR disaster, such as donating all the profit made from this to a forces benevolent charity, although I am unsure as to how effective this would be now. Even though there is now a ban in place top stop this kind of thing happening again, I think that in this instance it could be a case of too little too late. The damage has already been done.