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Iran Shot Beside Aircraft Carrier Shows U.S. Isn't Feared
12/30/2015 06:05 PM ET
Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, pictured operating in the Gulf of Oman on Dec....
Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, pictured operating in the Gulf of Oman on Dec.... View Enlarged Image
American Decline: An Iranian ship fires rockets within a mile of a U.S. aircraft carrier. Under President Obama's nuclear appeasement deal, the Iranians know they have little to fear from America.
What should be taken away from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards firing unguided rockets 1,500 yards from the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman during exercises within the vital oil transport route of the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend — reportedly giving our forces a warning of only 23 seconds — is that Tehran wasn't afraid of inadvertently hitting a U.S. vessel.
After all, what is there to fear from the feckless American giant? A commander in chief who runs home from Iraq and Afghanistan, then capitulates in a deal that was supposed to rid Iran of its ability to build nuclear weapons but actually perpetuates it, isn't going to go to war with the world's foremost terrorist state. Doing so would kill the nuclear deal and diminish the legacy for Obama, now less than 13 months from leaving office.
They know that this president is no Ronald Reagan. In 1988's Operation Praying Mantis, he had the U.S. Navy sink over half a dozen Iranian vessels in a single day to retaliate for a U.S. frigate striking an Iranian mine just four days earlier.
Instead of such a swift, unapologetic, actions-speak-louder-than-words offensive, the U.S. military under this president launches diatribes in place of ordnance.
Calling the Iranian action "highly provocative," a U.S. 5th Fleet spokesman issued this statement Wednesday: "Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognized maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with international maritime law."
The ayatollah must be shaking in his sandals.
Who in the world is afraid of Barack Obama's America? Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi on Saturday released an audio message that, among other things, taunted the U.S. as cowardly: "Crusaders and Jews don't dare to come on the ground because they were defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Instead, Baghdadi charged, Obama uses "agents" such as "the heretic Kurds and herds of rejectionist cattle."
Russian ruler Vladimir Putin isn't afraid of America. Like the Iranians, Moscow didn't worry too much earlier this month at the possibility that Russian weapons would hit U.S. aircraft.
Moscow's advanced SA-17 Grizzly air defense system, which can counter strategic and tactical aircraft as well as cruise and other types of missiles, targeted U.S. aircraft with radar in what American officials described as a direct provocation. The Russian move forced the Pentagon to cease all its manned flights against ISIS.
From a resurgent superpower to regional terrorist entities, the U.S. is no longer feared.
And an unfeared America is a vulnerable America.
Iran Shot Beside Aircraft Carrier Shows U.S. Isn't Feared
12/30/2015 06:05 PM ET
Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, pictured operating in the Gulf of Oman on Dec....
Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, pictured operating in the Gulf of Oman on Dec.... View Enlarged Image
American Decline: An Iranian ship fires rockets within a mile of a U.S. aircraft carrier. Under President Obama's nuclear appeasement deal, the Iranians know they have little to fear from America.
What should be taken away from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards firing unguided rockets 1,500 yards from the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman during exercises within the vital oil transport route of the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend — reportedly giving our forces a warning of only 23 seconds — is that Tehran wasn't afraid of inadvertently hitting a U.S. vessel.
After all, what is there to fear from the feckless American giant? A commander in chief who runs home from Iraq and Afghanistan, then capitulates in a deal that was supposed to rid Iran of its ability to build nuclear weapons but actually perpetuates it, isn't going to go to war with the world's foremost terrorist state. Doing so would kill the nuclear deal and diminish the legacy for Obama, now less than 13 months from leaving office.
They know that this president is no Ronald Reagan. In 1988's Operation Praying Mantis, he had the U.S. Navy sink over half a dozen Iranian vessels in a single day to retaliate for a U.S. frigate striking an Iranian mine just four days earlier.
Instead of such a swift, unapologetic, actions-speak-louder-than-words offensive, the U.S. military under this president launches diatribes in place of ordnance.
Calling the Iranian action "highly provocative," a U.S. 5th Fleet spokesman issued this statement Wednesday: "Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognized maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with international maritime law."
The ayatollah must be shaking in his sandals.
Who in the world is afraid of Barack Obama's America? Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi on Saturday released an audio message that, among other things, taunted the U.S. as cowardly: "Crusaders and Jews don't dare to come on the ground because they were defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Instead, Baghdadi charged, Obama uses "agents" such as "the heretic Kurds and herds of rejectionist cattle."
Russian ruler Vladimir Putin isn't afraid of America. Like the Iranians, Moscow didn't worry too much earlier this month at the possibility that Russian weapons would hit U.S. aircraft.
Moscow's advanced SA-17 Grizzly air defense system, which can counter strategic and tactical aircraft as well as cruise and other types of missiles, targeted U.S. aircraft with radar in what American officials described as a direct provocation. The Russian move forced the Pentagon to cease all its manned flights against ISIS.
From a resurgent superpower to regional terrorist entities, the U.S. is no longer feared.
And an unfeared America is a vulnerable America.
