Barack Obama is lucky he didn’t look any more foolish than usual, after 10 US sailors were captured and released by Iranian armed forces personnel. The 10 sailors were accused of trespassing in Iranian waters near an Iranian naval base, but were subsequently released after an investigation by Iranian authorities proved that the sailors had done so inadvertently.
This did give the Chief of Staff of Iran’s armed forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, the opportunity to hold the capture of the US sailors up to the international press and proclaim that the US armed forces were “vulnerable in front of “powerful Iranian forces.” The military has been dogged by Obama’s incompetence since the start of his administration and, were Iran not under the threat of economic sanctions, the incident would have likely ended in tragedy.
The incident reinforces what is already known by much of the Middle East: Obama is not a military leader and does not know how to keep his blundering policies out of the way of experienced military authorities.
Read more about the Iranian military’s Chief of Staff’s statement on page 2.
The entire naval fleet should have been mobilized and resting on the edge of their shores.
If they want to play the ‘brinkmanship’ game, we should oblige them.
Iran is far from powerful. Our Muslim president is a coward and a traitor. Those men and woman could have blown those Iranian row boats out of the water. They now hate Obama and Kerry with a bigger passion.
What in the hell were they doing there anyway. They should have been sent home for Christmas with their wives & kids.
Those people should never be allowed to shame America like that. SAD
Whole story is fishy
Disgraceful!
How could they drift 50 miles into Iran’s waters we have high tech equipment it doesn’t make sense. Something else that doesn’t make sense for that maybe man to apologize.
Hah. Yeah, so powerful. War mongers. It certainly wasn’t an act of understanding and forgiving. The US only had what 50 bases surrounding Iran? Iran must be trying to instigate a war and continue building their empire? This page is pathetic. A perfect example of low IQ.
We got a$#%&!@*for a president plain and simple!
Right, because the world could sure use another war right now? Apparently YOU don’t trust Obama and the US government, so when another country doesn’t trust the US government and detains US sailors in Iranian waters, questions them, feeds them and releases them unharmed, why is that a problem? Not everything has to become a war.