I'm an ex-Navy guy and don't agree with that conclusion. We really don't know what happened. DOD does. It could very well be that the Iranians intercepted them in international waters and the Obama administration is covering it up to protect the Iran deal. This is not a replay of the USS Pueblo.
We have other ways to insert people into areas that we are interested in.
We need to STFU and hope against hope that there are a few sane people left in the military and diplomatic ranks who will get these guys back before there is a tragedy.
Who needs to STFU? The American people? The Iranians sent a missile about a mile next to one of our carriers in the Straits of Hormuz. The carrier was in international waters. We did nothing in response.
"A U.S. aircraft carrier came within about 1,500 yards of an Iranian rocket while operating in the Strait of Hormuz, a Pentagon official told CNN.
"While transiting the strait that sits at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the USS Harry S. Truman had the encounter while the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were conducting a live-fire exercise in the area on Saturday, according to Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a U.S. Central Command spokesman."
A U.S. military officials added that while the Iranians did not appear to be targeting any specific ships with the exercise, their actions were "unnecessarily provocative and unsafe."
Iran held our diplomats for 444 days. They currently hold four Americans, Should we STFU about that?
Don’t you just love how in those quotes the editors arranged the words in such a way as to absolve the Iranians of all responsibility for the events described?