Sunday, 13 April 2008

Deja Vu - Iran "aggresses" the US in the Gulf


Oh God. Not again. The US Navy has claimed that three small Iranian boats "taunted" USS Typhoon. Firstly, grow up. Find better language than "taunted". It sounds so fucking school yard its painful. Secondly, remember last time this happened? The US released a dodgy video, the Iranians countered and so US intelligence invented a story about the "Filipino Monkey". I did a bit of digging and wrote about it at some length.
Of course boats, planes, indeed any sort of military personel will "taunt", goad, piss off, irk, and attempt to rile any vaguely hostile opposite number. So big deal. Non story. Indeed, given the US track record on in the Strait of Hormuz and fairy tales, I'm minded to go onto Ebay and purchase a mountain of salt.

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