"The actual best scenario is for Iran to attempt to attack one of our ships, because we will just light that country up like a candle."
Seems strange to me to think of a Carrier Strike/Battle Group as nothing more than a tripwire, but you may have a point there, judge.
OTOH, I see the reaction to an attack on one of the CSG's as infinitely more measured and thought out than "light...up like a candle".
If we only used the stuff that I saw come on line thirty years ago, those F/A-18 pilots on ONE carrier could still gut every Iranian military target within two hundred miles and not even break any windows in the towns around them.
....and the IRG knows that down to their boot heels.
Well, that's just Pukin-speak. I tend to get excited about the prospect of the Navy going all Jack Bauer on those bitches.