Iran Fires Rockets Close To US Carrier

[BFritz21]

I think I posted this, and maybe it was on the old board, but a friend that I grew up less than three blocks away has a brother who used to be a Blue Angels pilot, and now he's flying from an air craft carrier in the Middle East.

We were all in a group text and he starts sounding nervous and it's because Iran started firing rockets near the carrier, which apparently they warned ships in the area that they'd do it, but it just seems unnecessary:

Quote:The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman came about 1,500 yards from an Iranian rocket in the Strait of Hormuz last week, two U.S. military officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

As the Truman was transiting the strait, which connects the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, Iranian Revolutionary Guards conducted a live-fire exercise right near the U.S. carrier Saturday, officials said.

A U.S. military official said an Iranian navy fast and short attack craft began conducting a live-fire exercise at the same time the carrier was nearing the end of the strait, firing off several unguided rockets. A French frigate, the U.S. destroyer USS Buckley and other commercial traffic were also in the area.

The official said the U.S. ships were in the "internationally recognized maritime traffic lane" at the time, not in any territorial waters, when the Iranian navy announced over maritime radio that it was about to conduct a live-fire exercise and asked other vessels to remain clear.

After the warning, the rockets were fired from a position about 1,500 yards off the carrier's starboard side and in a direction away from passing coalition and commercial ships and the traffic lane, the official said. The rockets were not fired at the Truman and other ships, only near them.

While the official said the Iranians were "clearly not" targeting ships, the action was "unnecessarily provocative and unsafe."

There were no direct communications between U.S. and Iranian navies.

Coalition forces continued transiting without any further incident, the official said, adding that the Truman is now in the Gulf and launching aircraft in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

I really don't care if they weren't targeting our carriers, the fact that they had the audacity to fire them that close should be seen as a hostile act, which I'm not saying we should go to war over it, but we at least need to take a stand.

My friend was freaking out, and one of my other friends responded with "let's give them more power by lifting sanctions," which he's 100% right, but I told him not to worry because they're just trying to look strong but they're not actually stupid enough to mess with us because we'd bomb that whole country into a wasteland.

The thing is, though, that I don't think Obama has the balls to take a stand and other countries or terrorists might see that as just showing our weakness.

It kind of worries me.