Iran is threatening the shipping lanes? Do tell please. You brainwashed fools think the US is the world's police man when in fact its the bully doing the bidding of corporations and the military industrial complex. Iran hasn't started a war since when? Hm? I know there is no convincing such idiots that are so brainwashed as you and most others but I will try a little to smack some common sense into you. Oh and WHAT socialist country is in the ME? If Saudi Arabia is such a GREAT ally let them "defend the shipping lanes" MAYBE if the US stopped harassing and bullying countries in the ME and just FUCKED OFF things would get better.
Things would be better?
God damn you are a little naive boi.
You ever hear of pirates?
ROFLMAO So the US should stick its nose in the Persian Gulf because of Pirates eh? LOL that is WEAK! Do other countries not have a Military? They can't defend these ships?
Where Does America Get Oil? You May Be Surprised
Today, the U.S. actually gets most of its imported oil from Canada and Latin America.
Alright time to post ships around Canada and South America! CHOP CHOP! Damn pirates might get them!
Your ignorance of the world has no bounds. Does it child?
For Iranians Waylaid by Pirates, U.S. to the Rescue
An a naval action that mixed diplomacy, drama and Middle Eastern politics, the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis broke up a high-seas pirate attack on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, then sailors from an American destroyer boarded the
pirates’ mother ship and freed 13 Iranian hostages who had been held captive there for more than a month.
The rapidly unfolding events began Thursday morning when the pirates attacked a Bahamian-flagged ship, the motor vessel Sunshine, unaware that the Stennis was steaming less than eight miles away.
It ended Friday with the tables fully turned. The captured Somali pirates, 15 in all, were brought aboard the U.S.S. Kidd, an American destroyer traveling with the Stennis. They were then shuttled by helicopter to the aircraft carrier and locked up in its brig