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Originally Posted by mindfulcoug
with a great care not to break your fantasy bubbles ...a little bit out of historical context : the USS Vincennes which actually was in Iranian water fired and shot down an iranian airliner and chopped 290 passengers and crew memebers into floating peices for a second or so, called it as a *mistake* back in 1988 .. and now US warships let 6 speedboats get close , threw some boxes and threated to blow them up and yet did nothing ???
either US navy being too nice or too smart ..the whole story seems ridiculously questionable.
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It only seems ridiculously questionable if you are Iranian.
To shoot on the boats would have led Iran to claim we were started a war with them as aggressors (which is exactly what those silly little boats Iran calls a navy were trying to do). It didn't work, Iran is now embarrassed, and the best you can come up with is an incident in 1988 (which WAS appalling).