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2016-01-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Obama's chance to emulate Carter - Iranians grab 10 US Navy sailors and 2 small boats
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Posted by 3dc 2016-01-12 17:56|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
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#1 something wicked this way comes isbu 2 1
Posted by Goober Flusock7526 2016-01-12 18:49||   2016-01-12 18:49|| Front Page Top

#2 So are Baraq's speech writers scrambling right now to include something about this incident in his State of the Union Address tonight?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-01-12 18:54||   2016-01-12 18:54|| Front Page Top

#3 "Gonna need more empty chairs."

Suppose the sods are feeling a bit peaked?
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-01-12 19:08||   2016-01-12 19:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Weakness begets crisis.
Posted by Blossom Unains5562  2016-01-12 19:10||   2016-01-12 19:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Ebbang,
No, even the teleprompters can't be briefed that quickly...better to blame it on a youtube video.
Posted by Capsu 78 2016-01-12 19:19||   2016-01-12 19:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I dunno. I wan't gonna watch his speech but now I might.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-01-12 19:33||   2016-01-12 19:33|| Front Page Top

#7 I feel very badly for the sailors.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-01-12 19:34||   2016-01-12 19:34|| Front Page Top

#8 My thoughts return to Cambodia and North Korea. And then I think about all the scandals and changes of command to impact the Navy over the last couple of years and I am left to conclude, "par for the course."
Posted by Gerthudion White4991 2016-01-12 19:44||   2016-01-12 19:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Year 2016 starts off wid a bang in ME and Asia-Pacific for mighty "red line" Imposer-not-a-Defender POTUS Obama.

Won't take much to devol from setting up US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO to de facto Superpower = Co-Superpower-vs-Co-Superpower(s) MilPol confrontation + mil conflict.

PUTIN-BELOVED/DESIRED GLOBAL "MULTI-POLARITY" = "MULTI-LATERALISM" = GLOBAL "PARITY/EQUALISM", TO OWG CO-SUPERPOWER "PECKING ORDER".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-01-12 19:46||   2016-01-12 19:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I feel very badly for the sailors.

Agreed. If the crazed Medes and Persians keep them, hostage status and show trials would not be far behind.
Posted by JHH 2016-01-12 19:52||   2016-01-12 19:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I wish I could say that this action proves that Iranians are crazy.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-12 21:44||   2016-01-12 21:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Both the Pentagon and WH claim they expect the USN Sailors to be released soon.

OTOH the WH says that this incident will likely not be brought up during the Bammer's upcoming final SOTU address.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-01-12 22:58||   2016-01-12 22:58|| Front Page Top

#13 I remember how urgently the Iranians got the hostages off the ground, and into the air - home-bound - a few hours (minutes???) before President Reagan took the oath of office in January 1981. Quite a contrast!!!

Would the Iranians pull this kind of crap under a President Trump????
Posted by Lone Ranger 2016-01-12 23:17||   2016-01-12 23:17|| Front Page Top

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