Reply #132: Clear Threat? Where is your authority [View All]

[anastasiatwo]

The U.S., for whatever reason, allowed Iranian ships to close to well within the range of the Hoot torpedo.


Dear Sir: You said.... the U.S. ship... "allowed Iranian ships to(o) close...."

Either there were no rules that controlled the conduct of the speed boats, or there were rules that did not permit these boats to travel on the waters at the distance they were from the U.S. ship. Your statement implies and suggests (but does not say) that there were rules in place that did not permit these small Iranian boats to go as close as they went, which did not seem so very close at all from the video.

You also suggest, but do not say that the U.S. ship had the authority over these waters and over other boats sufficient to keep other boats at a particular distance.

And here is both your error, as well as your presumption about whether Iranian speedboats constituted a "threat."

Either they were permitted travel on the water as they did, or they were not permitted to travel on the water as they did. Which is it?

The fact that torpedos may reach the U.S. ship at the distance the speed boats traveled from the U.S. ship is not in any way relevant....and you know it.