Iran warns the US carrier against returning to the Persian gulf

[Martinus]

What do you guys think would be the US response if Iran somehow managed to inflict casualties on the carrier crew or even sink it?

[jimmy olsen]

What do you guys think would be the US response if Iran somehow managed to inflict casualties on the carrier crew or even sink it?

Disproportionate

[Martinus]

What do you guys think would be the US response if Iran somehow managed to inflict casualties on the carrier crew or even sink it?

Disproportionate

Are we talking about glassing of Tehran? I'd like to see it. 

[jimmy olsen]

What do you guys think would be the US response if Iran somehow managed to inflict casualties on the carrier crew or even sink it?

Disproportionate

Are we talking about glassing of Tehran? I'd like to see it. 

No, but we'd smash every power plant and destroy every bridge and dam. Hello Afghanistan East.

[PDH]

They are west of Afghanistan.

[Ed Anger]

[jimmy olsen]

They are west of Afghanistan.

No smile can properly display my shame. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Considering how narrow the straight is, if Iran tried isnt it rather likely that they would sink or seriously damage a transiting carrier? If so, its a pretty big bet to call when you send the carrier in there again. On the other hand you cant really not send to carrier in since it would signal that Iran can dictate what passes through the strait...

In a wargame as Iran a US general managed to sink a carrier and some escorts using kamikaze speed boats and a fuckton of missiles. However the Navy said he broke the rules of the game and it didn't count. 

I believe that was a wargame for the invasion of Iraq. 

[jimmy olsen]

Considering how narrow the straight is, if Iran tried isnt it rather likely that they would sink or seriously damage a transiting carrier? If so, its a pretty big bet to call when you send the carrier in there again. On the other hand you cant really not send to carrier in since it would signal that Iran can dictate what passes through the strait...

In a wargame as Iran a US general managed to sink a carrier and some escorts using kamikaze speed boats and a fuckton of missiles. However the Navy said he broke the rules of the game and it didn't count. 

I believe that was a wargame for the invasion of Iraq.

No, Von Ripper was war gaming as an expy of Iran

[mongers]

What do you guys think would be the US response if Iran somehow managed to inflict casualties on the carrier crew or even sink it?

Disproportionate

Are we talking about glassing of Tehran? I'd like to see it. 

No, but we'd smash every power plant and destroy every bridge and dam. Hello Afghanistan East.

Back in the real world, away from the cheap bluster, this won't happen because the US would want to be seen waging economic warfare against the Iranian people.

Diplomatically it would be an own goal following on from an Iranian aggression, I'd trust the state department and govt. to have a bit more sense and response in a more measured, effective way.

[jimmy olsen]

Back in the real world, away from the cheap bluster, this won't happen because the US would want to be seen waging economic warfare against the Iranian people.

Diplomatically it would be an own goal following on from an Iranian aggression, I'd trust the state department and govt. to have a bit more sense and response in a more measured, effective way.

We've been waging economic war against the Iranian people for years.

[mongers]

Back in the real world, away from the cheap bluster, this won't happen because the US would want to be seen waging economic warfare against the Iranian people.

Diplomatically it would be an own goal following on from an Iranian aggression, I'd trust the state department and govt. to have a bit more sense and response in a more measured, effective way.

We've been waging economic war against the Iranian people for years.

You doing what you'd criticise the left wing for doing, taking a well understood term about warfare and applying it to something entirely different and saying oh look the US is at war with Iran already etc.

[Ed Anger]

FYI:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm

A couple of months out of date.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Considering how narrow the straight is, if Iran tried isnt it rather likely that they would sink or seriously damage a transiting carrier? If so, its a pretty big bet to call when you send the carrier in there again. On the other hand you cant really not send to carrier in since it would signal that Iran can dictate what passes through the strait...

In a wargame as Iran a US general managed to sink a carrier and some escorts using kamikaze speed boats and a fuckton of missiles. However the Navy said he broke the rules of the game and it didn't count. 

I believe that was a wargame for the invasion of Iraq.

No, Von Ripper was war gaming as an expy of Iran

Van Riper played as Unnamed Middle Eastern Nation and actually sank the whole battle group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

[Capetan Mihali]

Back in the real world, away from the cheap bluster, this won't happen because the US would want to be seen waging economic warfare against the Iranian people.

Diplomatically it would be an own goal following on from an Iranian aggression, I'd trust the state department and govt. to have a bit more sense and response in a more measured, effective way.

We've been waging economic war against the Iranian people for years.

You doing what you'd criticise the left wing for doing, taking a well understood term about warfare and applying it to something entirely different and saying oh look the US is at war with Iran already etc.

I think the main point is that it is abundantly clear by now that the US government doesn't give a shit about the civilian/humanitarian repercussions of its sanctions.