So then, are our AWACs all located somewhere else? Are we looking for coke smugglers with our satellites instead of watching for these loads of plunder, however they may be hauled?
More border nonsense!
If a ship is at sea, headed from Bandar Abbas to Latakia, there's no way of knowing what it might be carrying.
And no authority under which it might be stopped and searched, much less its cargo impounded.
Certainly, we have the power to undertake such interdiction, but it is unlikely that we would break any international laws to do it.