Posted on 04/22/2015 4:21:54 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is known in the Navy as “the Big Stick.” She carries a ship’s crew of 3,200 sailors and Marines, along with an Air wing of 2,480.
And not one of them knows what the hell they are doing off the coast of Yemen, following an Iranian convoy of just nine ships.
That’s because the Commander-in-Chief who sent them there doesn’t know why the hell he moved a 104 thousand ton Nimitz class nuclear carrier into the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa.
The Pentagon told Fox News that the ship is there to track the Iranian convoy, which is suspected of carrying weapons intended for rebel fighters in Yemen, which makes perfect sense.
But Marie Harf, Queen of Nonsense, insists that the carrier group (carriers never travel alone, by the way, they keep missile frigates, destroyers, Aegis cruisers, tenders, and a few submarines around for security) is only there to "ensure the shipping lanes remain open and safe" -- and "not to do anything in terms of those Iranian ships."
Any suggestion to the contrary is “blatantly untrue-- so this discreet movement of U.S. assets is for a discreet purpose," Harf said.
To paraphrase what Teddy Roosevelt might say: W.T.F!?
So, the U.S.—the world’s only superpower—sends one of its mightiest warships to tail nine Iranian junk freighters, which we could sink, board, or do whatever we want to, to simply sit in dangerous waters and tempt every pirate, maniac or terrorist to do something.
Nobody’s that stupid.
Obama’s new diplomacy: speak twaddle, and wave the big stick like an impotent mall security guard.
Nobody in the world seriously thinks Obama will lift a finger to stop the Iranian vessels, lest his carefully half-baked Iranian surrender soufflé fall. Moving the carrier is just another fake red line that will be crossed again and again before it fades into the sunset of America’s lost greatness.
To the sailors, Marines and brave aircrew aboard “Rough Rider,” you have my sympathy. Nothing is worse than being the biggest boy on the team, but your chicken-hearted coach won’t let you play.
Pathetic.
Carriers need sea room to move and operate, maintain their protective bubble. I wouldn’t bring a carrier battle group within 200 miles of them. You want to tail an unarmed surface convoy you send a couple of frigates, destroyers, or even a guided missile cruiser in to show the flag with the carrier’s air power overhead. That tells them they are passing only because you allow it.
dp0622 said “the African” in reference to 0bama himself. READ HIS ENTIRE COMMENT!!! He’s right. What white person would work for a black person who HATES whites? Would you? I wouldn’t. More importantly, what person of ANY color would serve under someone hellbent on completely destroying our superpower status, foreign policy, our private sector, our government, etc, etc, etc???!!! To serve under 0dumbo makes one COMPLICIT.
Simple, proof positive that every ship has to be somewhere.
Precisely.
> Could the carrier is there to protect the convoy against attack by Saudi aircraft? That seems likely to me.
Bingo!
Actually, you are correct. They are there to protect the Iranian ships so the Saudis don’t attack them and “start a war” typical John Kerry “peacenik” strategy. The 60’s hippies are in control.
Moving the TR gives ISIS a break from our air raids in Syria and Iraq. A rest and an opportunity to attack, consolidate positions, and dig in without fear of air strikes.
its being set up to be attacked...by a smallcraft with explosives or a missle... just like the cole.... we must continue to do stupid shit because all the intelligent admirals and generals have been squeezed out or shunted aside...intel is ignored... and the ass kissers and ball lickers run the show...
the girlyboy bendover clown encourages attacks on christians and the ussa military because the world knows he has no balls...
Harfing: (v) To say or assert something so patently stupid and preposterous as to generate widespread mockery.
USS Theodore Roosevelt to be sacrificially decommissioned Behghazi-style. “US military assets too far away to render assistance in time”, Reports of orders given to stand down ignored by MSM, “What does it matter?”, etc. Hope not, but with this bunch, anything’s possible.
As slowly as those Iranian ships are taking to arrive, they are going to rust out before they get there.
Agree.
Its protecting the Iranian arms shipment to Yemen.
That is exactly right.
That stupid blonde from the State Dept. says they are running a discrete operation. DISCRETE OPERATION . . . . with a carrier group . . . . come on! They take a carrier group away from attacking ISIS to run figure eights in Yemen’s front yard to do WHAT? But it is discrete. Good for us.
“DISCRETE OPERATION . . . . with a carrier group . . . . come on!”
Yes, discrete....as in deer hunting with a brass band leading the way! 76 trombones and the rest....
100%
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