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"More than twelve United States Naval warships and at least one Israeli ship crossed the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on Friday, British Arabic Language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday."
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I think 12 Navy ships including a carrier can handle anything Iran is sending to Gaza. I do realize that the way things are in the world today that an incident like this(if it happens)can set off a much larger war.
I'd be curious to know what type of ships transited the Suez. Cargo, support ships, etc. or actual combatants, like destroyers, frigates, cruisers, etc.
That would say far more about the mission being undertaken. The stories are rather vague on those points.
Well the implications of what could very well happen are huge and if there is one story above most that folks should be paying attention to (as though there wasn't enough already) it would be this.
The US and Israel (lord, I sometimes think they are a state as this phrase gets used so often) are drawing the line with the rest of the Middle East. While places like Saudi Arabia and Egypt will try a restrained approach, more and more Muslims are seeing this as a clash of civilizations where it is an us vs them and putting aside their personal differences of things like Sunni vs Shiite that has kept them at odds with one another.
I'd be curious to know what type of ships transited the Suez. Cargo, support ships, etc. or actual combatants, like destroyers, frigates, cruisers, etc.
That would say far more about the mission being undertaken. The stories are rather vague on those points.
YC.......
The article said that there was a carrier and the headline says war ships, there is a picture in the article as well.
NORFOLK, Va. - The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HST CSG) deployed May 21 for a six-month deployment, to the 5th and 6th fleet areas of operations, in support of maritime security operations.
Truman (CVN 75; Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3; Commander, Destroyer Squadron (CDS) 26; the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), and guided-missile destroyers USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79), USS Ross (DDG 71) and German Frigate FGS Hessen (F221).
Missions of the HST CSG focus heavily on maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts, which help establish conditions for regional stability.
The deployment is part of an on-going rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations and operating in international waters around the globe, working with other coalition maritime forces.
NOTE - Under international treaty, the Suez Canal may be used "in time of war as in time of peace, by every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag."
Oh yeah. And I don't like it. A president with a popularity rating below 42% is a dangerous person.
I wish we'd realized that when Bush was at 27% and prosecuting the Iraq and Afghan war .
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