Davey, when I first heard that the ships had left port, it did bother me, but now it seems clear that it was the only thing that they could do.
I would bet that it was al Qaida and not the country of Jordan that fired on us.
If we had fought back, we would have been killing friends in Jordan and Israel.
a tough decision, but the right one.
Still to me it is a full declaration of war, firing on Navy Ships is different that sniping at a few soldiers on duty.
The war on terror has taken on a larger meaning that finding the insurgents.
But I do not have the faintest idea of how to fight it.
al Qaida is being smart, strike, and run, strike from places that we are not at war with.
The entire mission of that strike on the ships may have been to entice us to fire back on our friends.
they will get dumb and one of these days, the missile will come from Iran and we will fire back.
It is the obligation of the ship's captain to get her out to sea when attacked in a harbor.
They are meant to fight at sea, not as ducks in a pond.