I have been perusing the various comments on this thread and sat back contemplating them. Let me say I have empathy, a great deal in-fact towards the F it let the locals deal with this.
I also realize that oil is a Global Commodity. And, the US Navies mission, besides the defense of our country, post WWII is, and has been, the free flow of commerce worldwide. There is no other force on earth capable of ensuring this.
And, given the fact that Iran, since the 1970’s, is responsible for more deaths of Americans than any other country on earth I believe it is long past time we took care of business with that country.
My position is, that the US should lead a multi-National attack on Iran. Our partners should be Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, etc... We participate in air power/missile missions. The US and Israel provide intelligence and the other local countries provide whatever ground forces are necessary with US Special Forces support but, no US siege and occupation level Army support.
The Iranian nuisance must once and for all be eliminated. With Extreme Prejudice.
Please stop and think before posting this globalist nonsense.
That attitude is exactly how you end up living in a country that pisses away trillions of dollars in Third World dumps all over the globe while sitting back and doing nothing to stop an invasion of Latin American peasants here at home.
I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 to put an end to that sh!t.
Your analysis was spot on. Now if we permit the interruption of commerce in the Gulf, the Chinese will act to close off trade routes in much of the South China Sea. And on it will go until the internationally approved law of the sea is made a hollow shell.
No. Wrong answer. We exist as a country for the benefit and protection of our citizens. Global this and Global that be damned.
I call your attention to the Afghanistan-Iraq nation-building, democracy-spreading shock-and-awe futilities.
And you want to do it again? Because some oil facilities got bombed in Saudi Arabia?
Fix the facilities and let the Saudis go to war if they have the stomach.
All the M.E. has is oil and Muslims, and we don’t need either of them.