Former Repiblican Representative Allen West of Florida is critizing the conduct of the 10 US sailors who were captured and quickly released by Iran yesterday, saying they should have resisted arrest.
Allen West rightfully highlighted the political fallout that comes from the imagery of detained and embarrassed US military personnel. Being a retired US Army lieutenant colonel gives some wisdom to the criticism that the personnel should have fought back, if only to prevent Iran from being able to make claims that Iran’s military force is unimpeachable and mighty (it isn’t).
West also criticized the conduct of the 10 detained sailors, saying they should have assumed a defensive posture and called in for help in order to prevent any incident or threat from developing into something dangerous, like a political loss of face being televised from Iran around the globe.
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I agree
Allen what were the chances they would been out number at this point we need to stop both Obama’s
Isis new video, army on their knees, great, Obama really got a grasp on the situation
you seem like a goodman allen but why would they call for back up when obama would gave order to stand down thats obama buddys iran you know that but i agree with you but obama and hillary let alot die to protect his muslim buddies
Never give up your ship, guns and never allow them to make you put a scarf on your head.YOU are American soldiers
That$#%&!@*is crazy. Going into their waters and opening fire, unprovoked? That’s not a defensible position.
I would think when they saw the ENEMY boats comming they were in radio contact with their commander and were told to STAND DOWN . Seams to be obamas way . Wave the white flag ……. obama has made America WEAK !
Our Navy men did what they where told to do . Nobody knows the real story behind this soap opera . If they had resisted capture there’s a good chance they would be dead , for who and for what ? It’s all a big game and the powers to be are using our military men as pawns on a chess table . These Navy dudes had the smarts to play the game and come home alive , God Bless Them . Anybody who thinks otherwise is UnAmerican
I respect Allen West a lot, but I’m not exactly sure he has all of the facts about what went down. It’s nice to think we could just “shoot” our way out of a situation, but if the boat was incapable of maneuvering, they would have been sitting ducks and we would have had a serious incident on our hands. I’d say let the facts come out to help shine a picture on what exactly transpired in that area. Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t happy about the Iranians putting our sailors on display, but at least they’re still alive and it wasn’t one of our capital ships involved. If it had been a capital ship, then I suspect things would have been different, and probably ended differently.