380,
Your obviously not aware of the strict protocol for a US navy ship to open fire. I can assure you warnings were definatly given. You can't just open fire at will. Whether the warnings were taken the correct way or understood is obviously an issue, but usually some shots across the direction of the risk vessel are given and if you can't understand what that means, well boating may not be your thing.
Whether or not you agree with US foreign policy, the world and especially the gulf would be a very different place without US presence. Debatable whether better or worse depending if your country benifits, which most gulf countries benifit greatly.
And for the record please tell us which government is not completly screwed up and corrupt. The US is criticized if they act and critisized if they don't act, unfortunately as your government does it acts in its own best intrests, it's positions are more visible due to the fact it's a superpower and it has more capability to influence outcomes.
380, do you always make assumptions with one side of the story? Talk about trigger happy
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