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ASB News / MILITARY

@ASBMilitary

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BREAKING: Iran’s State TV releases footage of Iranian IRGC drone hovering over USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier (CVN-69) in the Arabian Sea / Persian Gulf.

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j.s.

@unionguy216

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Good. We shouldn’t be in the Arabian Sea.

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David Pecchia

@dpecchia

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Why not? This is international waters.

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j.s.

@unionguy216

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So if Iran had a war ship in international waters off of California, you’d be cool with it? No big deal?

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@dpecchia

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The Soviets did this all the time and all we could do is keep tabs on them. Anyway, the US plays a very different role in the world than the Iranians: We are about ensuring freedom of international waters, they are kind-of attempting the opposite.

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@Malagraves

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"We are about ensuring freedom of international waters"

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David Pecchia

@dpecchia

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Yeah, just something I made up... https://policy.defense.gov/Portals/11/Documents/FY19%20DoD%20FON%20Report%20FINAL.pdf?ver=2020-07-14-140514-643&timestamp=1594749943344…

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David Pecchia

@dpecchia

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Since its founding, the United States has stood for—and fought for—freedom of the seas. As a result of that commitment, freedom of navigation has been enshrined as a fundamental tenet of the rules-based international order for the last 75 years. In that time, it has proved..

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@unionguy216

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How do we know they were in international waters? The US military lies all the time.

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David Pecchia

@dpecchia

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@Malagraves

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"Good. We shouldn’t be in the Arabian Sea." Gosh! Who wrote this? Did they mean to write, "We shouldn't be in Iranian territorial waters" and somehow forgot how to create such a phrase?

4:09 PM · Apr 21, 2021·Twitter Web App

Getting In On The Ground Floor

 I haven't done much since, but was in the first of what I hope are a long series of the type.

The Althouse Blog, which I've been following almost since its inception and which I've been commenting on for almost as long, has taken-off its comments section.

She gave her reasons here, and very nicely has taken to inviting comments via email.  I made such an email comment and it was posted in the first batch of such comments.  Every so often, a post appears which has links to posts that have had comments appended to them.

Here is that first one:

Snippets of comments — received via email — that can be found on recent posts.