Posted on 07/19/2019 1:05:57 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
I think it’s ‘technically’ international Waters.
but those countries have ‘national waters’ powers too.
the law of the Sea can get... dubious.
Amen to that. We should have enlisted their help back in 2001 too.
I don’t understand what Iran hopes to gain from this. They have to know they’ll just get their ass kicked?
?
Sick of us getting involved in crap when it should be the ones being attacked. Let them handle it.
If not for President Trump, just in the short time he's been in office, one of those tankers could have been ours but they're not. Time to let the 'allies' stand for their own countries.
At the minimum, iran expects to drive oil prices up. they desperately need increased price for their oil.
Like our sanctions against Cuba.
Brits can’t build a full size carrier. Hence STOL/VTOL.
Or we could have obama call them up and tell them to ‘cut it out’ like he did with the Russians.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/07/19/iranian-ships-stranded-brazil-without-fuel/
I wonder if the brits know this. Get my drift?
One thing made the Mid East what it is today.
Jimmah Carter.
And yes, that led to Shia taking over there.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/07/19/iranian-ships-stranded-brazil-without-fuel/
I wonder if the brits get any ideas.
Well now... the us has guaranteed Europe’s oil from the Mideast since Eisenhower was president.
big things like that can’t stop on a dime.
though that policy is passe.
things have changed.
[trump doesn’t want Congress to have the great power over him that a war would give them.]
That’s not even counting the authorization for operations in the Middle East provided in the wake of 9/11. The Iranians took the entire US embassy hostage in 1979. That’s a terrorist act, and an act of war. They sponsored the massacre of 200+ Marine peacekeepers, in a terrorist attack, who were in Lebanon as part of a UN resolution, tasked with keep apart Israeli troops and the PLO. We have plenty of reason to bomb the hell out of Iran.
The media keeps posing false choices. We are in the position of a guy with a scoped rifle hundreds of yards away from an attacker armed with a knife. There is no reason to get close to the knife-armed assailant. Blow him away from a distance.
just remember what happened to bush jr.
What if the short-term response is not sufficient?
Trump is sunk is what happens.
China would love to give Iran money to subject Trump to Pelosi’s demands.
Does anyone run the U.K. I mean outside of Khan, the Muslim may or Londonistan?
[just remember what happened to bush jr.
What if the short-term response is not sufficient?]
It worked with Iraq and it’s worked with Libya. Is either country sponsoring terrorists against us or building nukes? If not, mission accomplished. The idea that we’re responsible for building them into Germany or Japan, or we’re the biggest sinners on the planet, is woolly-headed nonsense.
I *so* agree with you. Achieving that against the efforts of
US media (and the DC establishment) is a problem though.
Now it’s a diplomatic problem, but it could become a military problem quickly.
I'm sorry, I don't share your concern where the Brits are concerned. They think so little of their population they have let the savage hordes rampage their way in. I just hope and pray that Brexit truly does happen. Those will be the people/country worth defending. Sick and tired of the world relying on America to fight their battles and I'm sick and tired of us involving ourselves in the middle-freaking east..
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