Somehow I always thought it would be other guys who would sink a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz to block the Persian Gulf. I reckoned without the peculiar incompetence of this administration and the bad luck our military has had in the region.
It appears we are still more of a danger to our allies than to our enemy, as the Japanese tanker Mogamigawa was reminded yesterday when rammed by the USS Newport News. What's a cruise missile up the stern tube between friends, eh?
Mishima had a good take on this earlier: "The sub rear-ended the tanker. It must not have seen its brake lights."
I figure that the captain - like the Decider in Chief - just doesn't know when to change course to avoid disaster.
