Someone told me a horror story from the mid-1980s--apparently the National Security Council told the Navy to send a carrier within a few miles of the Lebanese coast to show Hezbullah who was boss.
The Hezzies were not impressed, and fired some artillery at the carrier, and actually managed to straddle it before the ship went to full speed ahead and got the hell out of there.
Many people are only familiar with half of that story. The OTHER half, is that the battleship that was part of that battlegroup opened up with her 16 inch guns and silenced the artilary in a minute or so. It was a bait and switch, which caused many Hezzies to get their asses blown up.