[Advil]

I'll have to go confirm this. We don't move fifteen aircraft that cost anywhere from hundreds of millions to a billion dollars EACH if we don't think they may be needed for imminent use.

While it could be a show of force, I'm going to assume that we generally don't move that many of them to a hot spot without very good reason.

My assumption from the F117 movements would be that this situation is escalating behind the scenes and is now likely very tense.

[El Gato]

We don't move fifteen aircraft that cost anywhere from hundreds of millions to a billion dollars EACH if we don't think they may be needed for imminent use.

Of course we do. We send aircraft carriers all over the world. That sends a "message" to the evil doers. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, the weapons are there and ready. It's called deterrence, and like I said, it doesn't always work.