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The most plausible explanation for the 10 riverine sailors captured by Iran
American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2016 | Thomas H. Lipscomb

Posted on 01/17/2016 6:06:27 AM PST by Travis McGee

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To: Travis McGee

the psychological interpretation....

Lifson has “Penis Envy.” He has a sense of inadequacy in the face of a “real man”. That’s why he can’t respond.
To apologize, it takes self-confidence. It would mean to actually engage you “man to man” and he is incapable of that...lots like that in the world of academia.

Confident men are not “threatened “by other confident men. They want strong men on their team. They own up to any of their own shortcomings or “mistakes” and eagerly ask others who are competent to join them.

Further analysis would be unfair...albeit, mommy-daddy issues are suspect. ha.


101 posted on 01/18/2016 6:32:20 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Bush won the War in Iraq, Obozo lost the peace..and gave Iraq back to the Terrorists!)
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To: Travis McGee

Mexican standoff,

That’s about it!


102 posted on 01/20/2016 6:11:40 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: VerySadAmerican

They did not go through Kuwait, they were assigned there, doing port and river security work. They were being reassigned to Bahrain, probably to guard that port, or for refurbishment beyond the capabilities in Kuwait, or as preparation for being shipped back to the US. They may or may not have been replaced with another pair of boats in Kuwait. If they were, the new boats likely got to Kuwait before these two left.

I, Travis, and others, don’t think they were in Irainian waters when taken. Likely they were swarmed by a bunch of smaller, but heaviliy armed, boats, while their radios were Jammed, and their GPS either jammed or spoofed.

It’s possible they were in Iranian waters, due to their GPS being spoofed, but it seems unlikely, since they also had radar, and could “paint” the coast to compare to what GPS was telling them, and could compare what GPS said their heading was, with their compass.


103 posted on 01/22/2016 10:36:16 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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