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Posted on 07/11/2007 8:04:09 AM PDT by jhpigott
July 11, 2007 Los Angeles Times Borzou Daragahi The stakes are big and the waterway is small, so communication between the two sides is a must to keep a lid on tensions. ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS -- Iran and the United States remain so far apart on so many issues that they refuse to talk about them. But in the cramped sea routes of the Persian Gulf, U.S. and Iranian warship sailors and fighter pilots speak to each other daily. They have to. They're practically jostling one another in courteous games of surveillance, counter-surveillance and geopolitical posturing. "We are operating very close to their territorial waters in a very confined space with a tremendous amount of traffic, be it the small dhows, be it the supertankers going up to the oil platforms," said U.S. Navy Capt. Sterling Gilliam Jr., commander of air operations for this nuclear-powered supercarrier and its associated ships.
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one little slip up, trigger finger, overly eager sailor and we could find ourself in a shooting war
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You say that like it’s a bad thing!!!
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Pull all allied assets out first, please and thank you.
Sooner or later. Take your pick. And later is not all that far away — the world stands by while Iran keeps building nuke facilities and the means to hide their weapons.
Don't see anything wrong with that. Give them a warning, any boarding or taking over of any vessel other their own, the straits will be cleared of the Iranian Navy.
i am all for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, but we can do that w/o our navy sitting in the Gulf. Not that I think Iran would have much luck even with a number of U.S. naval targets in the Gulf, its just that they would be unnecessarily exposed
Correct URL is http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-stennis11jul11,0,7338129.story?coll=la-home-center
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