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The strike group will be accompanied by a bomber task force and is heading to the Persian Gulf
The U.S. is sending the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the Middle East "to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime," National Security Adviser John Bolton announced Sunday night.
You will not kidnap our sailers. You will not take our people hostage. And you sure as hell will not hurt us or our ally, Israel, without paying ten times the price you charged us.
Bolton said the deployment was in response to "a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" on the part of Tehran, but did not elaborate. However, you can probably put your money on the threat they pose to Israel as the main reason we're not sitting on our hands.
"[A]ny attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force," Bolton and his mustache said. "The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces."
This will probably hold a lot more weight than sending the regime pallets of cash with our apologies for having them take our sailors.
The strike group, which includes the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and destroyers from Destroyer Squadron 2, departed Naval Station Norfolk on April 1 for what the Navy described as a "regularly scheduled deployment." The strike force is under the command of Rear Adm. John Wade.
The deployment also comes amid the bloodiest fighting in five years between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
The strike group and task force are officially deploying to the U.S. Central Command region, an area which covers 27 nations in East Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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