I think I'd be pissed if the Iranian navy ran maneuvers off the coast of New Jersey :dunno:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070523/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gulf_us_navy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070523/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gulf_us_navy
Navy launches show of force near Iran
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I'd be pissed if someone posted a news story in the Games and Stuff board.
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Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Classic saber-rattling. Oldest play in the book. Doubt it will have much effect. Still, Tehran is well-advised to back off its continued effort to develop nuclear weapons. I have no doubt that Bush will eventually carry the fight to Iran for real if they continue down that path. Really dangerous times in which we live.
No, sadly after repeated statements from the White House that this is business as usual, I don't think he will hesitate either. I don't think he can. I think what ran through my head when I posted this is another, "No wonder the world hates the US scenarios". I have really come to believe this may end badly for all of us in the next 10 years. I think some historian on some other planet someday will write a book on how the US screwed up big time throughout it's reign, bringing about it's own demise.
Gun boat diplomacy.
I agree. I doubt that either side thinks the other will change or ever care that much about this.
DrMotorcity
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YEAH! I said "YEAH!"
I too, applaud the the presence that a force a-float can... imply. But then again, so did Teddy Roosevelt.
Go, Navy!!!
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Are they sure it was the Iranian navy or just a boat full of asylym seekers 
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I think we've stirred and fucked enough up without starting on some other poor sods.Maybe and when we fix Iraq and Afghanistan hopefully there won't be anymore shit
I think we've stirred and fucked enough up without starting on some other poor sods.Maybe and when we fix Iraq and Afghanistan hopefully there won't be anymore shit
I agree with you.
I suppose Gulf of Tonkin was saber rattling too.
Roughneck's military axiom #542: When you force opposing military forces in close proximity, the threat of war due to accidents, mishaps and misunderstandings (all of which are by products of routine military deployments); rises by a square power for each day said militaries are in close contact.
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Yep. And sometimes that's the desired outcome.
Didn't Churchill imply about merchant ships, (the Lusitania), "if some of it gets into trouble, better still"?
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Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Yes....that's the nature of saber-rattling.
Absolutely. Nations (or their leaders, rather) have taunted fate deliberately hoping for some sort of conflict many times throughout history. Right here in the good ol' USA, you can go back even further than the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Roughneck (does the name "Pearl Harbor" ring a bell?). I just don't believe the Iranians will take the bait....yet, anyway.
Iran don't have to take the bait. The Golf of Tonkin was fiction. The battle never happen. Don't you think W is capable of making up events and reality.
Why not? He's done it before.
Sounds likes a possible billion of your tax dollars spent in area we really have no control over... Have we not figured this out yet?
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