By now, just about everyone in the galaxy has seen the video of the U. S. Navy sailors, captured by Iran, on their knees in their riverine patrol boats. On their knees, hands behind their backs, heads bowed and Iranian Revolutionary Guards standing over them with weapons. The video is infuriating:
Then, this morning, we woke up to the video of the captured sailor/Marine, I do not know, apologizing and thanking the Iranians for their hospitality and assistance.
What?! What?! Give me a minute here! I need a whiff of my smelling salts and a lie down on my fainting couch.
What the heck has happened? According to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, Iran acted beautifully. They fed our people and assisted them back to The Fleet. Are you f**king kidding me?
Secretary of State John F. Kerry is a “war hero” who has been selling our military out for more than forty years. This old chestnut is from when he testified about Vietnam War “crimes” before a Senate hearing in 1971.
So, let’s set the scenario here. Obama, Kerry and their Iranian buddies get this deal thing, that is yet unsigned. They are our buds now. We’re gonna lift sanctions, and give them buckets of money and Iran is gonna…
Even though the missiles were not directed at the U.S. vessel, the officials said the exercise was “unnecessarily provocative and unsafe.” There had also been another U.S. vessel – the destroyer USS Buckley — in the area, as well as a French frigate and other commercial ships.
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most important oil shipping channels. The military official said the U.S. ships had been in “internationally recognized maritime traffic lane” when the Iranian navy began its live-fire exercise. Prior to the exercise, the Iranian navy announced over maritime radio its plans for missile practice.
Whatever the narrative that President Obama was hoping to spin about Iran during tonight’s State of the Union address just went straight out the window. The Pentagon…
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