Fire One Across the Bow, Then Put One Down Their Throat!

Two Hundred Yards Is Too Close

Jed Babbin  August 29, 2016

As Reagan did, we need to sink a few Iranian boats to teach the rest.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boats harassed U.S. Navy ships and boats again last week in what has become a commonplace in the Persian Gulf. All of these incidents have happened in international waters. The Iranians claim much of those waters as their own.

In January, the Iranians fired missiles within about fifteen hundred yards of the nuclear carrier USS Harry S. Truman. In that same month, the crews of two U.S. Navy patrol boats were captured and detained by the Iranians, the U.S. crews having failed to fire a shot in their own defense. They were released after the Iranians had made propaganda videos shaming our sailors.
In the latter incident, the commander of the surrendered boats later said he surrendered because he didn’t want to endanger Obama’s efforts to lock in his nuclear weapons deal with Iran.
There were four separate close encounters last week between two U.S. Navy ships, two U.S. patrol boats, and IRGC fast patrol boats. In the last one, a U.S. patrol boat fired warning shots when the Iranian boat came within 200 yards. The Iranians withdrew quickly when the U.S. boat opened fire.

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