Why doesn't Trump show some guts and send US Navy ships through the Straits of Hormuz?

We have deployed - out of harm's way - two carrier strike groups: the Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, and the Gerald Ford in the Red Sea.

Sending the Gerald Ford thru the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea was dumb. It is now in a "fish tank" within range of Iran's hypersonic missiles. The Suez Canal was a tight squeeze. The Houthis are waiting at the Gulf of Aden. To escape, the Gerald Ford will have to get back out to the Mediterranean thru the Suez Canal again. Two hypersonic missiles, one aimed at each end of the Suez Canal, will seal it locking up the entire carrier strike group.

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Heartlander

It's not about guts. Never surrender the safety of distance when the max range of your weaponry is greater than the enemy's.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Heartlander

It's not about guts. Never surrender the safety of distance when the max range of your weaponry is greater than the enemy's.

If you are afraid of death, then you live a dog's life.

Heartlander

@sree251

Dead people don't win wars. The highest casualty count doesn't determine the winner.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Heartlander

Dead people don't win wars. The highest casualty count doesn't determine the winner.

Tell that to the one million Russians who died in facing down the Germans at Stalingrad. Tell it to the one million Vietcong fighters who died facing down Americans in Vietnam.

Heartlander

@sree251 Those million that you refer to can't hear. They are dead. Wars aren't won based on casualty counts. Germany and their allies had almost twice the Stalingrad casualties as did the Soviets. Hitler demanded that German forces fight to their death. Many did and they loss the war. Japan used humans as bombs and torpedoes, and once al their kamikaze pilots were dead there was no one left to defend the skies overhead.

Of all the participants in WW2, The US and UK had by far the fewest casualties. By your measure they lost the war :) By my measure they won and for the best of reasons, they valued human life and didn't view soldiers and sailors as expendable pieces of meat.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Heartlander

Of all the participants in WW2, The US and UK had by far the fewest casualties. By your measure they lost the war :) By my measure they won and for the best of reasons, they valued human life and didn't view soldiers and sailors as expendable pieces of meat.

If the US and UK value human life, there would be no wars.