The ROE’s under LBJ for our Navy were rotten as well as the lack of back up for the Pueblo and Liberty sailors.
One can only imagine how restrictive the ROE’s are for our sailors in this ill conceived bs, under the yoke of the Muslim Brotherhood/pro ISIS thugs in charge of our pentagon and the out house.
I really fear for our men there. Iranian ships head for shore in Yemen, what do we do?
Americans need to learn to be very very cynical of events as reported by the establishment politicians and media...regardless of Party. They make Soviet Pravda of 40 years ago look like Disney. Average Americans and our freedoms and our Treasury have become a disposable commodity as illustrated by our trillions in debt, much of it defending others.
We do not have a clue as to what country and what motives are out there to intentionally create anarchy in the Middle East, except that somehow the USA always pays and USA servicemen always die.
I wouldn’t like to see it because of the major global economic impact, but if the entire ME turned to molten glass I wouldn’t lose much sleep. I even might sleep better. But the sleep I’d lose might be because they’d want to take the rest of us down with them.
By the way our politicians have always talked a good game of protecting our servicemen, when we know most of them play politics first instead of actually protecting our servicemen. The pols sit in their plush offices scheming on how to create public opinion and blame it on others. I was reading a book about the Lusitania and how some claim but can’t prove Churchill used its sinking and loss of innocent civilians to deliberately involve us in WW1. I’ve lost trust in those who should be most trustworthy.