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2018-12-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranians can hold US aircraft carrier hostage if they want to: Writer
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Posted by Fred 2018-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 The first time the Russians fired missiles from their ship in the Caspian Sea into Syria, the United Sates pulled its aircraft carrier out of the Persian Gulf," he noted.
Mars was also running retrograde to Jupiter in Ursa Major.... Just kidding, I have no idea if the astrological signs were like that -- still he just threw out a whopper of a non sequitur.
Posted by magpie 2018-12-05 05:11||   2018-12-05 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 While I think it's odd that you never see E Michael Jones and Baghdad Bob together, I have thought for a while that carriers today are in the same position that battleships were in at the beginning of WWII. Not obsolete, but needing new doctrine to defend against new threats and to avoid becoming the next "Prince of Wales".
Posted by Mercutio 2018-12-05 08:24||   2018-12-05 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by DarthVader 2018-12-05 08:52||   2018-12-05 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 DVader, you are the MAN!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-12-05 09:25||   2018-12-05 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 They can do that exactly ONCE. For the same reason that any ship can serve as a minesweeper, once.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2018-12-05 10:02||   2018-12-05 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 They can. But how effective it will be as a tactic depends on the attitude of the American president at the time. Do that with President Trump and it’s likely Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei‘s home will become rubble around him. Or that lovely port from which all Iran’s oil is shipped abroad. Or all of the nuclear bomb facilities whose locations Israel has so generously shared. Or... well, lots of possibilities, really.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-05 10:27||   2018-12-05 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 When PRESSTV needs an anti-American quote they put on E. Michael Jones, like a used condom
Posted by Frank G 2018-12-05 10:58||   2018-12-05 10:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, a fill in the blank!

Iranians can hold the US carrier hostage if they want to _____

... die in large numbers.

... start a war they cannot win.

... see their navy and port facilities obliterated.


Anyone else have some?
Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2018-12-05 13:06||   2018-12-05 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 ... All of the above (and below, too).
Posted by gorb 2018-12-05 16:01||   2018-12-05 16:01|| Front Page Top

#10 If someone could pass this link along to the targeting people, I'd be much obliged.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-05 16:33||   2018-12-05 16:33|| Front Page Top

#11 "The aircraft carrier has been made obsolete in China"

Do tell Admiral. However the Chinese don't seem to think so. They are in fact going to great expense to develop and build several carriers of very their own. They're working on #3 right now.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2018-12-05 21:12||   2018-12-05 21:12|| Front Page Top

#12 A couple of E. Michael Jones books. Had no idea who he is and now I'm sorry I do.

Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury 2014

The Jews and Moral Subversion Feb 5, 2016

The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing (Hardback) - Common 2003

Jewish Fables: Darwinism, Materialism, and other Jewish Fables Mar 30, 2018

Catholics and the Jew Taboo Jun 14, 2018
Posted by Woodrow 2018-12-05 22:43||   2018-12-05 22:43|| Front Page Top

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