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2016-09-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Elliott Abrams: To Show Our Resolve, We May Have to Sink an Iranian Ship

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-09 06:22|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Yeah, I'm sure one of Iran's plastic patrol boats is worth at least a $2 billion cash pay off to compensate for their "loss."

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-09-09 07:42|| 2016-09-09 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 A mission at long last for the LCS. They have a serious wake.

Posted by Shipman 2016-09-09 08:52|| 2016-09-09 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I dunno, seems to me that a round of 5" or 25mm or .50 cal machine gun send the appropriate diplomatic message.

Our message should always be, mess with us and you're dead and we ain't paying for it.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-09 09:17|| 2016-09-09 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Ain't going to happen with Obean.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-09 10:31|| 2016-09-09 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Send shots across their bow and if the boat happens to move into the impact point, so much the better.

Posted by Guillibaldo Slath7730 2016-09-09 10:45|| 2016-09-09 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Just one?

Posted by Raj 2016-09-09 11:47|| 2016-09-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Just one? Reagan showed how it is done.

Posted by Shick de Medici6262 2016-09-09 11:56|| 2016-09-09 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Just one?

Let's compromise. Just one navy.

Posted by gorb 2016-09-09 16:26|| 2016-09-09 16:26|| Front Page Top

#9 ...forced them to take evasive action ...

Time to refit our ships with a Mythbusters-style Wedge-o-Death on the bow. "Coming through!"

Posted by PBMcL 2016-09-09 18:10|| 2016-09-09 18:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Time to review "Operation Praying Mantis" from 1988:

https://youtu.be/gob3lMwkjnw

Posted by Lone Ranger 2016-09-09 21:31|| 2016-09-09 21:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Or smite them with a 100kw+ laser that curses beards and melts eyeballs but otherwise leaves no trace of an attack.

This is the 21 century you know.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2016-09-09 22:15|| 2016-09-09 22:15|| Front Page Top

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