[RoseofTexas]

I just wonder what Iran did with the 150 BILLION$$$$$ Ovomit gifted them?!!

[Midwesterner53]

This could become very serious very quick. Iran is more stupid than we thought if they are openly attacking ships.

[karnage]

I doubt it.

[Brilliant]

I think that Trump is just laying it out for Iran. If they attack they will pay. That makes war less likely I think.

[kabar]

Gulf of Tonkin is a loaded pejorative description. These are not American vessels that have been attacked. I would advise against military action against Iran.

[IronJack]

These are not American ships. Let their owning nations defend them. The second so much as a slingshot is fired at an American vessel, let Iran join Iraq in the Got Crushed by the US, Middle East chapter.

Until then, mind our own business.

[wannabegeek]

Probably the writer of the article didn’t see yet U.S. Navy report unexploded mine found still sticked at one of the tanker. Gulf of Tonkin, what? In April 14, 1988, USS Samuel B. Roberts stuck a mine while navigating around Persian Gulf that found out crazy Iranians layed the mines supposedly to victimize commercial vessels passing through the Straits of Hormuz. April 18, 1988, came the operation praying mantis, the U.S. Navy in retaliatory attacked Iranian military targets: a Iranian frigate sunk, a gunboat sunk, 3 speedboats sunk, another frigate damaged, 2 platforms destroyed, etc. If Navy determine the unexploded mine(s) found in the stricken super are Iranian made, Mr. Trump might order sink all the Iranian Ghadir-class submarines lurking around the Persian Gulf.

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[DownInFlames]

Gulf of Tonkin was phony. This is real. Real ship are being attacked in international waters with real damage visible to the public.

[HighSierra5]

The mullahs are getting chesty. They’re probably going to test a nuke soon.

[ModelBreaker]

How is this leading to a Gulf of Tonkin incident? In the GOT incident, the US lied about an attack on a US destroyer. There was not an attack. Iran has (likely) blown up six tankers and an oil pipeline already. They have captured, humiliated, and held American soldiers (under Obama).

So the author thinks the US is now going to fake an incident? We won’t have to fake one.

That said, so far, Trump does not seem eager to go to war the way our last four presidents have been. I hope we aren’t going to send more troops off to another war in the Middle East.

[caddie]

Look at what the world has become because we didn't deal properly with the Iranian takeover of our embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Imagine how much better the world would be if those people remained bottled up in their backwards world, instead of contaminating ours.

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