Good answer.
“The world”, if it wants to keep its sea lanes open, should organize patrols in the Persian Gulf to protect shipping. We can back it up, but we should not be on point. Let the Brits, Norwegians, Japanese, the ones whose ships are under attack, step up. We can back them up, but let them be on point.
And, isn’t it time for the Saudis to build pipelines out to the Red Sea? Or out through Oman? They need options just for things like this. Maybe they have them, but I’m not aware.
The US offered some assets to help. Help was turned down.
There you go, it’s all yours now.
UK needs to deal with Iran and London.
Yes, let the UK defend their own ships. Sure, if they need help defending themselves, maybe we discuss it again. They are a failed state today, killed off by their inbred monarchy, welcomed invasion of Islamic cult, and over-the-top PC that destroyed their culture and heritage. Sad demise.
May said, May said. Twaddle! May displayed to the entire planet what a total squish and pushover she is when she didn’t have the spine to follow through on extricating the UK from the EU plantation. So the ragheads in Teheran must be snickering into their teacups over her wimpy demand to return her tanker. Merrye Olde England needs someone with cohones to be in charge. Drop a cruise missile down the ayatolla’s chimney.
Bravo.
Let the navy of the Lyin’ Limys look after their own ships.
If this goes like the Falklands War the Brits should have their tanker back around the time the US returns to the Moon.
Thank God.
I don’t want to have to pay taxes to be the world’s cop.
the whole damned mid-east isn’t worth one taxpayer cent or drom of American blood. Never has been.
Pompeo...capture of British-flagged tanker: Up to ‘United Kingdom to take care of their ships’!
There is nothing in that area that is necessary to America and 99.999% of its citizens.
The UK has a Navy, Air Force, Marines and Specops, let them handle their problem.
Thank you President Trump.
Boris will get the ships back. Likely on his first day of office. Imo
Long term we need to develop our own resources as much as possible and then pull back from the Middle East and let “the world” ensure the supply of its oil. We’ll have ours so it’s not our problem.
Once again, the weenie neoisolationists come out in droves on our Freerepublic!
1. The UK is a member of NATO. When one member is attacked, we’re all attacked.
2. While we were hiding behind our oceans (and some even seig heilling Adolph), Great Britain stood alone against the Nazis while their cities were being bombed mercilessly. We finally decided to get manly about 15 months later, after the heroic Brits and Russkis softened the enemy up.
I am heartily sick of hide-under-the-bed cowards posing as conservatives. Waiting around and letting others fight our known enemy is slimy.
Doesn’t a lot of Chinese oil go through the straight?
The U.S. has worked long and hard to become energy-independent, primarily to avoid being subject to the evil whims of evil oil-producing nations like Iran.
Britain has not taken the opportunity to begin accessing more oil from the U.S. and other friendly nations; instead, it continues to help the evil Iranian regime — the number one terrorist-sponsoring regime in the world — by buying its oil.
Unfortunately, the British no longer seem capable of functioning well enough to resolve their problems, for example, Brexit; and now their ships are being sunk in the Persian Gulf with no prospect of remedying the situation because their Tory government has not been able to choose an official functioning new prime minister.
Britain would not be an important nation if it were not still a center of wealth; so the solution for Britain is to
redirect some of its wealth to the friendly United States oil industry and away from the evil Iranians. If the British are not willing to do such a simple thing, they’re beyond hope.
Let the ungrateful, backstabbing Brits fend for themselves. Not one drop of American blood should be spilled over this. We have our own oil.
Heard this afternoon on FNC that England doesn’t have enough war ships to protect much of anything. That’s either poor planning or brilliant planning for the US to take care of them.
The UK needs to take care of business in the UK. It can start by attacking London and ridding itself of the moooslim invaders.
Uh-oh...what the “Trump’s gonna get us into a stupid war” folks gonna do with this one???
