Wednesday, Feb 21, 2007
This will keep those oil prices lower...
Herald Sun: Second US carrier arrives off Iran
The USS John C Stennis and its accompanying strike group joined the USS Dwight D Eisenhower in the Sea of Oman but has not yet entered Gulf waters, the US Fifth Fleet said from its base in Manama.
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1. lvmreader said...
Remember how these things could be linked. If a bank has made assumptions on something and a shock event occurs which would cause major losses, the bank will have to call in loans. This will affect many mortgages and force the sale of properties.
2. harold said...
The US is so like the last days of the Roman Empire: increasingly stretched abroad, while rotting from within.
3. Popalot said...
Brought down by its own decadence...
4. Airey Bollox said...
It really seems like it, doesn't it Harold. Yet the US public stand by and let it happen as if to say,"It can't happen to us!"
5. Chillilizard said...
what about us?
6. daft boy said...
Make no mistake, the only guys suffering from shock will be the Iranians when they see the size of these babies offshore.
7. lvmreader said...
@daft boy
Introducing the Shkval - nuclear tipped 223mph torpedo. Will make an awful mess of your $30,000mn Carrier Group
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002291.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/05/wiran05.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/05/ixnewstop.html
8. tyrellcorporation said...
IVM, I think the prospect of Iran taking out a US nuclear carrier should fill everyone with dread. I don't think the US response would be 'proportionate'.
9. Andy said...
........drunk and gloaten on its excesses.
The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level.
Poet and Laureat was forgotton, the fire of genius was extinguished.
The military spirit evaporated. The masters of the roman world secured their thrones with darkness.
The roman race was indeed puny, unable to free themselves from the legislation and legalities that bound them in shackles and this was to remain until the giants from the northern provinces finally invaded.
Edward Gibbon
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
10. george monsoon said...
This could well be the camel that breaks the straws back!! (intentionally reversed)
11. mrmickey said...
The German battleship Bismarck ended being crippled by an obsolete biplane so I wouldn't be to sure about the invulnerability of these US aircraft carriers.
12. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
Harold, Andy, that is shockingly reminiscent of the US and its mother-turned-child, the UK.
If I find a good job abroad I will take it.