[Travis McGee]

"Five small boats were acting in a very aggressive way, charging the ships, dropping boxes in the water in front of the ships and causing our ships to take evasive manoeuvres," the Pentagon official said.

The ROE should have meant these boats were sunked seconds later.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Apparently the President stayed on the Economy message in Chicago,....CNBC cut away.... Fox was off chasing other topics.

[Jeff Head]

Exactly. As I stated in the other thread, IMHO, all five of these Iranian boats should have been blown out of the water. Sooner or later we are gpoing to have to take the hard line with the Iranians and their aggressive, impeding actions in those confined waters should have been viewed for the provocations and potential danger they were.

By not doing so, we are only going to embolden them all the more.

Thew Iranians have been killing our boys in Iraq...blatantly. I know of no time in our history when such provocations during out and out war, in theater, either would have been or should have been taken laying down. It is far past time for serious pay back.