SUEZ NAVAL INCIDENT

USS Cole was attacked some years ago, during the Presidency of clinton.
That was then.

Some months ago, a group of British sailors were captured by iranian gunboats whilst carrying out their duties in international waters.

More recently, a group of iranian fast boats aggressively approached a squadron of US Naval vessels.

And then there was the incident in the Strait of Taiwan.

And now, this incident in the Suez Canal in which a vessel under contract to the US Navy fired close on to an approaching Egyptian small vessel which refused to stand away.

US and British Naval units are deployed throughout the oceans of the world.

Their job, as in days of old, now there is a phrase, is to 'keep the sea lanes open' for the lawful intercourse, now there is another word, of the lawabiding nations of the world.

Pirates and rogue navies are plentiful. Pirates infest the waters around west Africa, the Caribbean, off the Asian coasts, and God knows where else.

iran operates gunboats in the vital oil shipping lanes of the Middle East.

And then there are the growing naval threat of mainland china and what is left of the Russian Navy.

The point is that the American and British Navies face complex and many challenges.

They have proven in recent encounters that they are not trigger happy.

This most recent Suez incident emphasizes the readiness of the US Navy to defend itself.

Such emphasis is good in a maritime world in which there is really no effective law enforcement beside that which the US and the British Navies are willing and able to carry out.

Make no mistake...there are laws of the sea, but said laws are only enforced by those nations which sail upon them.

And it is important for the well-being of the world that the right navies do the enforcing.

Check out thte link below for an account of the Suez incident and how it probably came about.

Bad guys will and should take notice.

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