Is the Administration Trying to Pull a Fast One On Us or Are the Iranians Truly That Stupid

[liberalgoliath]

Pentagon Says Ships Harassed by Iran

By PAULINE JELINEK (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated Press

January 07, 2008 11:29 AM EST

WASHINGTON - In what U.S. officials called a serious provocation, Iranian boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the American vessels

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[synergy]

Whenever I read about these types of things, a little niggling voice reminds me of Gulk of Tonkin.

[fmjs]

I've just seen the footage. Is it a policy to film the bridge whenever contact is made with port or other vessels? In the opening shot of the speedboats, they are very far away (the zoom-out shows that) and probably just doing normal patrols. What is the point of showing that, then? To build up viewer tension? In the latter footage (much later, from the look of the sunset) the speedboats weave in and out of the naval vessels' wakes, but there is nothing so terribly sinister about that. They do not approach dangerously closely

[liberalgoliath]

According to the Iranian side, nothing was out of the ordinary, this happens regularly, and develops into nothing. Just an expected consequence to the two countries' aggressive postures.

Who, in the Western Media, needs to make an elephant out of the mole is a better question