You are fixated on destroying. It's called boarding to inspect... which as you pointed out... they have agreed to.

A wise man once said, "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Anyone know who that wise man was?

Mark Twain...




Good point...

Seriously fuck you guys. I'm out.

HONNNK !! Penalty for Outrageous Assumption.

Edited for the addition of this sentence after reading the rest of the comments here.

If you seriously think irreverent attempts at humor on a forum to make the best of a bad situation occurring half way around the world we have absolutely no control over or say in what goes down are serious standards we all adhere to, you are seriously misguided in your assumptions. Perhaps you could hang out on Twitter, or Facebook, where stupid stuff gets jumped on and taken viral all the time, completely out of context with reality.

Everyone knows you board the vessel, and inspect everything.

If the cargo is legit, no problem.

If the cargo is arms, evacuate the crew, and vaporize the ship with everything on it.

There is my final solution spelled out.

Teddy Roosevelt said it best. " Walk softly, and carry a big stick. "

I'm only including one quote because I'm lazy, but will reference the others.

You brought up some intriguing points that were, unfortunately, quite undermined by the "kill all the brown people" remark. First, we have an individual in the seat of power in the US who is half black, and who frequently appears to identify as all black. Also, the article link you posted (later in this thread) indicates that Saudi-led forces have been killing Houthis. This is coupled with the fact that Sunnis and Shi'ites are (and have been) busy fighting in Yemen, Syria, Iran, and other Middle Eastern areas. If you're the type of person who divides the world into brown and white, it's worth pointing out that every single one of those groups would probably fall into the "brown" category, whether they be killers or killees (not a word, I know). Clearly something other than skin color is at play here. They are also ALL Muslims, so, again, there's obviously something else going on.

In addition, any notion that Iran has a viable argument about providing that kind of protection for commercial vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz is unsupported. Not only is it a location that's heavily patrolled by a number of countries -- some with competing interests, and few (other than Iran) that have shown a propensity for interfering with commercial traffic -- and closely watched by all involved, Iran has also declared on several occasions that their mere presence provides the bulk of security for ships transiting the area. Unless there's something extraordinary about this particular cargo ship, or unless their goal is/was to provoke other nations, then the use of 2 warships is difficult to explain. So either there IS something extraordinary about this ship, or they WERE trying to incite a reaction, or there's SOMETHING else happening here.

I always enjoy an intelligent dissection of a situation, I just felt these 2 points were a little off center.

Edited because of stupid autocorrect.

So Iranians don't hate us because we installed a very very harsh dictator at the behest of standard oil who tortured his own people in huge numbers in order to try to stay in power? They hate us because they are envious? It couldn't be because once they threw out our dictator we haven't even allowed them to sell the one asset that they have (oil) on the open market? Or that we supported Saddam Hussein with chemical, biological and other weapons in a long war against them? Nah they just hate our Kardashian's and SUVs.....

LOL and you guys called rayjax an idiot......

"An enemy of my enemy... is my friend."


Shit stinks... it's a matter of "who" has to clean it up and "when."


Also when you have 20/20 hindsight... then YOU ARE ALWAYS right...