US Navy warships are parked a few miles off the coast of Iran, apparently to protect oil shipping lanes into and out of the Persian Gulf. If provocation is at issue, those facts must remain front and center. If Iranian warships ever made it as close to our coastline as US warships now lie to Iranian shores, our military would in all likelihood attack them. Iran is not attacking our warships - parked on their doorstep. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.