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The US is sending an aircraft carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings from Iran, the national security advisor John Bolton has said.
It was unclear on Sunday night what Iranian actions Bolton was referring to. There have been no recent incidents in the Persian Gulf where US and Iranian navies are routinely in close proximity and the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group was already bound for the Gulf a month before Bolton made his announcement.
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Bolton gave no details of the alleged troubling and escalatory indications and warnings from Iran. Mark Dubowitz, the head of the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies who has long supported a tough approach to Iran, argued that Hamas rocket attacks against Israel could have been orchestrated by Iran as part of a campaign against the US and its regional allies.
Actually, intimidating the regime in Iran by promising overwhelming force in response to intel that they may be considering striking US assets or allies is called deterrence and could help dissuade them, Dubowitz wrote on
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/us-deploys-aircraft-carrier-and-bombers-after-troubling-indications-from-iran
Here comes the war. Now expect martial law and no 2020 elections.
no_hypocrisy
(46,332 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Bolton is one of the main characters "Bomb bomb Iran".
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)Lots going on this week from which the unwashed masses need a distradtion.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Trump got his countries mixed up, (too much Adderall) it was N. Korea.
TEB
(12,966 posts)Lets just toss our cream of the nation into another quagmire. Bolton chickened out from Vietnam national guard and we know about bonespurs.
Kaleva
(36,410 posts)The Lincoln Strike Group was already scheduled to be in the region.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)uponit7771
(90,378 posts)infullview
(982 posts)uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... without much tangible recourse.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)are the potential Mueller testimony next week