ok, so lets say we give them a pass on the first pass as they didn't know... unless they took out the radio room and antenna, Liberty would of been burning up the airwaves to higher-higher they were under attack.MISTAKEN confrontation ?? ACCIDENTALLY on purpose you mean
The attack was no mistake. The Israelis did it to cloak their operations in the war from their ‘ally’, the U.S.
It was a ruthless decision made by a country that found itself in extremis and decided to act in what it perceived to be its critical tactical interests.
I hope we don’t have this problem again. The U.S. military has enough experience (Pueblo, Liberty) to know they shouldn’t have intel ships operating alone without sufficient covering force.
ok, so lets say we give them a pass on the first pass as they didn't know... unless they took out the radio room and antenna, Liberty would of been burning up the airwaves to higher-higher they were under attack. I wonder if people would twist themselves into pretzels to justify a similar cowardly attack by a different country.
The bottom line is that it sure sounds like the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing.
U.S.S. Liberty [NSA declassified more documents on 40th anniversary]
Follow-up PING to last month’s discussion!