Sad to say, I think Britain blinked - and Iran is pushing it to the max. And even more sad to say, that the mad mullahs and Imawackjob will probably get what they want and more.
Can we all say deja vu? Isn’t this in 1979 what unleashed the hounds of hell known as radical islam thanks to the inept, namby-pambling, and (gasp) US intrusion into the affairs of another nation by (gasp, shock and horror of it) President Jimmy Carter (D)?
This incident if not cleaned up yesterday is going to make OIF look tame, quick and clean by comparison.
Just what the World needed - a fubar this late in the game. . .this is not good at all.
You take Fifteen Hostages, We “take” Fifteen Cities (or military bases)… Just think about that, Ahmadamnjihadijerkoff…
Where’s Winston Churchill when we need him (and not today’s whimpy reincarnations of Neville Chamberlain)
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
There is only one thing the Mule-ahs and Ahmindeedajerk will understand and that is having their asses totally kicked. Iran and Iraq fought an 8 yr. war to a stalemate. I don’t think taking out the Iranian Army would be much more difficult than taking out the Iraqi Army was.
The ROE of the British forces did NOT allow them to defend themselves, so their ship sat out there and let the little Iranian bastards come take them off the ship.
WTF? Over....
If the British had given a warning, and then blown the little shits out of the water, we would NOT be where we are right now.
You do NOT have an ROE in a war zone, that your troops cannot defend themselves, and WTF is the matter with that fricking captain, he should have fried the SOB’s no matter what the ROE said.
If your troops are in danger, you DESTROY the danger, to hell with the consequences.
WTF happened to the British, what a disapointment, if you are going to walk softly, you HAVE to have a BIG stick, and the British have themselves a twig obviously.
I am SO disapointed with our brothers across the pond, if I was in the British military right now, my morale would be about as low as it could go.
Jag is absolutley correct - the only frigging ROE in a war is “I go home, the enemy goes in the ground”. I think it is about time that Iran exit the word stage as a nation - and I know there should be one or two boomers in the Gulf that could arrange it.