[Blood of Tyrants]

Clearly this was a provocation and a test that Obama failed miserably.

[Baynative]

[ClearCase_guy]

Suggestion: live fire them right back. With accuracy.

[JudyinCanada]

More like a “hi there” from the Iranians to their buddy, Barak. Kinda like the guy who sunk the tourist ship to say hi to those on the coast.

[Southack]

No, just tabloid journalism designed to spike the adrenaline of readers.

The Iranian ships were firing directly away from the U.S. ships, towards Iran.

U.S. ships were 1,500 yards from the Iranian ships (backside of the missile launches).

Straight of Hormuz gets narrow. If you are going through it, you are going to be close to live-fire exercises.

[bgill]

IOW, they set us up with a trial run and we did NOTHING.

[uncbob]

Carriers are sitting ducks in those waters and our admirals know it and don’t like being there

[G Larry]

1-1500 yards is close to a mile.
2-Bambi has no intention of generating a response in America’s best interest.
3-Bambi wouldn’t have clue how to respond if our carrier was hit.

[kvanbrunt2]

and what did the carrier hit in response?

[TornadoAlley3]

Just fireworks for Obama for a happy new year

[Mariner]

The headline is one of the biggest misrepresentations of facts I've seen in the news this year.

The rockets were no threat to the CVN (which was under some bad-assed escort) and we in fact fired in the opposite direction of the carrier and escorts.

It was more akin to an ironic welcoming ceremony.

Shame on Fox.

[italianquaker]

Stop it was only a clock for goodness sake

[soycd]

Obviously the Captain was not too concerned or the headline would ready much more differently.

[HKMk23]

Provocation? Nope.

“Officials said the rockets traveled in a direction taking them away from the Truman and other shipping traffic in the strait...”

STRONGLY recommend you RTFA before posting.

[Robert357]

Since the missiles were fired away from the fleet, that was not as provocative as it could have been. Still the Navy could have done more.

The Phalanx close in weapons system's should have had their radar up and 20mm cannons spinning with 23 minutes advance warning.

Since the Iranian missiles were 1,500 yards away and since the Phalanx has an effective range of about 4,000 yards, the Navy could have shredded the missiles in mid-flight.

That would have impressed the Republican Guard and probably made them wet their pants. It would have put a stop to this nonsense in a way the Big Zero just doesn't understand.

[The Great RJ]

Perhaps we need to test some of our new laser or rail gun weapons in close proximity to Iranian patrol boats.

[JimRed]

No CIWS target practice?

[unixfox]

Pfft...Obama would be afraid to attack a pirate ship.