[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

I hope this is disinfo, though I doubt it.

We might as well hand the Iranians the keys and have the sailors swim home.

[doc1019]

Read somewhere that we just sent a 4th or 5th Aircraft carrier into the area. Sounds like we are giving up! May be a replacement maneuver, however, several carriers in this small pond makes me wonder. And should make Iran pucker.

[Mariner]

These carriers in the Gulf are not needed for any strike against Iran. Iraq is right across the street and so is Afghanistan. We can place as many strike aircraft there as we choose to and nobody can say diddle about it.

It's far better to have the carriers available for incidents in the South China Sea, North Pacific, Horn of Africa and SOUTH AMERICA.

We can project overwhelming force with the USAF via existing airfields in southern asia and Iraq. The carriers were all show and outside their mission envelope when confined in that narrow body of water.