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Originally Posted by TexaninVA

I forgot about that national disgrace and textbook example of fecklessness.

Let me review the history of that event.

"On January 12, 2016, two United States Navy riverine command boats were seized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy after they entered Iranian territorial waters near Iran's Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. Initially, the U.S. military claimed the sailors inadvertently entered Iranian waters owing to mechanical failure, but it was later reported that they entered Iranian waters because of navigational errors.[3] The U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, called the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif within five minutes. His call was followed by multiple other phone calls between the two ministers. The sailors had a brief verbal exchange with the Iranian military and were released, unharmed, 15 hours later. "

To summary, our ship illegally entered the territorial water of Iran. The ship was captured and within a few hours the sailors were released. And you call that feckless? What should we have done, other than maybe stayed out of their waters. The Iranian Navy if it followed the just issued orders from our side, would have sunk our ships and all souls lost. What country acted with restraint in this story? Did diplomacy show its value? Some people only see what they want to see and disregard the rest.