[[Two Navy 33 ft. heavily armed SWCC boats and crews get captured by an Iranian pleasure boat with an 80 HP Evinrude?
What’s wrong with this picture?
This whole thing doesn’t meet the smell test.]]
Exactly- even if it was several warships- why the hell did they surrender? What would iran do? Kill the soldiers and risk their %150 BILLION the us is going to allow them to get? Risk an all out war with the US? But the fact that they surrendered to such a pathetic Iranian crew tells me this was planned so that dear leader would look good for his do nothing offensive policy of leading from behind- He now gets to tout his idiotic policy by claiming that being nice to them prevented an ugly incident-
It’s just disgusting- You’re right- something is very fishy here
And just how did they know that they were surrendering to representatives of the Iranian government instead of say, ISIS terrorists or some adventuresome pirates?
I can't imagine a US Navy boat operating in the Middle East would even allow the approach of another boat let alone surrender without some specific authorization from way above them in the chain of command.
The US boats had enough armaments to mount a significant defense against the Iranian boats, and probably could have easily defeated the Iranians even without calling for air support.
The headquarters of the US Fifth fleet was only about 120 miles away, and apparently US air resources are located about 20 miles further away. Presumably an F/A-18 or similar aircraft could have been circling over the boats in less than an hour. Except for the island, many miles of water separate the location from Iranian territory. It is hard to imagine that a few guys in a fiberglass boat armed with rifles and a light machine gun would have wanted to tangle with any US combat aircraft.
So I think we all know the most likely reason why the crews surrendered - a high level administration official told them to.
....Kill the soldiers and risk their %150 BILLION...
I think they just sunk their money by attacking two Navy boats and waving around our troops like fodder.
I’m guessing they will attack a Navy war ship next, money or no money. They have no fear of Obama retaliating so they are in the catbird seat with Russia by their side.