[panaxanax]

“I recommend and emphasize to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf”

Commander to crew: “Do a 180, boys, we just got invited to a party.”

[misanthrope]

Only a blustering fool would advocate unnecessarily jeopardizing one of our carriers simply to taunt the Iranians.

They have ATTACK AIRCRAFT on them. Remember?

[Mr. Wright]

I remember a state-run, lame-stream media report broadcast many years ago in which Momar Khaddaffy was shown riding in what looked like a PT Boat out to sea. The state-run media reported that Khaddaffy was “chasing away the U.S. Fleet”.