[MARKUSPRIME]

This is to bloody much. We need to end this now and forever. Bomb them mercilessly.

[JamesP81]

This is to bloody much. We need to end this now and forever. Bomb them mercilessly.

Indeed. I'd start bombing economically important targets and continue until the sailors were released. For every sailor that died, I'd be inclined to pop off a ballistic missile.

Sadly, Iran would push it that far. But maybe the next petty tyrant down the line wouldn't.