‘I hope he said please’: Analysts comment on Obama’s request for return of drone

prettyplease — his photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and taken at an undisclosed location claims to show the US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week. AP / Sepahnews

The U.S. government is asking Iran to return the Lockheed Martin-built RQ-170 Sentinel UAV that was recently downed over that country.

“We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” President Obama said Dec. 12 during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. …

“I hope he said please,” said analyst Dan Goure of the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., referring to Obama’s statement. “I can’t quite see that happening.”

Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at Teal Group, mirrored those comments.

“Good luck with that,” he said. “I think I read this really bad plot line in a cheap novel a few years ago. Life imitating art, or something like that.”

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