[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The American people have not seen or heard of a carrier loss since WWII. I think the Iranian's will be the first nation since Imperial Japan to sink an American carrier. How the American public would react to a sinking is up in the air. Just think of the photographs of the great ship, listing, smoke bellowing out, destroyers dashing about and sailors going over the side by ropes.

The Iranians are obsessed with our carriers and one day they will lose restraint, especially during Hillary's presidency.

[Alter Kaker]

The Iranians are obsessed with our carriers and one day they will lose restraint, especially during Hillary's presidency.

If so that's dumb on America's part. We don't need carriers to hit the Iranians - US could easily stage land-based aircraft out of Turkey, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and Italy. Presumably the Iraqis and Afghans would object to using their territory for operations, although who knows. If the US needed more bases to operate from, I'm sure the Saudis would be accommodating provided the target is Iran.