Former Repiblican Representative Allen West of Florida is critizing the conduct of the 10 US sailors who were captured and quickly released by Iran yesterday, saying they should have resisted arrest.
Allen West rightfully highlighted the political fallout that comes from the imagery of detained and embarrassed US military personnel. Being a retired US Army lieutenant colonel gives some wisdom to the criticism that the personnel should have fought back, if only to prevent Iran from being able to make claims that Iran’s military force is unimpeachable and mighty (it isn’t).
West also criticized the conduct of the 10 detained sailors, saying they should have assumed a defensive posture and called in for help in order to prevent any incident or threat from developing into something dangerous, like a political loss of face being televised from Iran around the globe.
Read more about Allen West’s opinion on page 2.
We should have never been there to begin with!
yeah, sailors dont make their own orders, and it dose sound like something the state dept. would do ….
I know terry they are now going to be used as a recruiting tool in a video,
Exactly!!!^^^^
They couldent fight ,they were over powered, boat Brock down, Obama dident want them to fight back,
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If you plan for the worst — if you can live with the worst —
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And we leave control of the Persian Gulf to Iran? I’m sure they would not interfere with the commerce passing through the Gulf. These people are a menace and sadly our idiot president has planted the seeds to a conflict that may one day see a lot more of us there! I truly hope to be wrong on that, but 150 billion buys a lot of ordnance!
Sorry, if we had an administration that projected power, these “dudes” would have been able to have 2 F-18s buzzing those fanatics in two minutes off of the Truman. I am sure the ROE under Obama were followed though, no doubt in my mind. Those pirates would never have touched our crew if those sailors swung their 50 caliber machine guns toward the dingys they were in. Why, because those aholes were in communication with their leaders, and fanatical or not they would not risk the billions that were to be released to them by the end of that same week.
They would not have had to do any shooting. If they took an aggressive stance, the Iranians would have backed down. Three reasons, one is that we had much more fire power on those boats and I am sure better shooters, two, the Carrier Truman could have had F-18s there in less than 5 minutes after the call for help would have been made, and three and most important, the Iranians were in touch with their leaders and if we were showing resistance, their people would have done a lot of shouting but no boarding. Why/ Because later that same week our government was releasing the first payoff to these fanatics of billions of dollars, and crazy as they are, they are not stupid!!
Depends on the I am sure ROE they have to operate under. Think of our so called CIC! Having said that, Obama never misses an opportunity to humiliate our military, so they would order the sailors to remain silent then press charges against the sailor so they can look tough! I don’t doubt for a minute that this bunch in Washington wouldn’t do that.