Dereliction of Duty

Caroline Glick writing in the Jerusalem Post on the seizure of the Maersk Tigris:

On Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forcibly commandeered the Maersk Tigris as navigated its way through the Straits of Hormuz. Iran controls the strategic waterway through which 40 percent of seaborne oil and a quarter of seaborne gas transits to global markets.

The Maersk Tigris is flagged to the Marshall Islands. The South Pacific archipelago gained its independence from the US in 1986 after signing a treaty conceding its right to self-defense in exchange for US protection. According to the treaty, the US has “full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the Marshall Islands.”

Given the US’s formal, binding obligation to the Marshall Islands, the Iranian seizure of the ship was in effect an act of war against America.

In comments to Bloomberg hours after the ship was seized, Junior Aini, chargé d’affairs at the Marshall Islands Embassy in Washington, indicated that his government’s only recourse is to rely on the US to free its ship.

"The US has full authority and RESPONSIBILITY..."

I guarantee you the task force commander in the Gulf knows that. It's the duty of flag officers to know exactly that sort of information, in fact. I'd be willing to bet a paycheck there was a heated argument between the CTF and the NCA (that'd be Obama), in which the latter explicitly ordered the US Navy to do nothing about the seizure of that ship. If the admiral has any sense whatsoever, he demanded it in writing.

This pretender who calls himself the President is rapidly advancing us toward a constitutional crisis. Congress seems incapable of standing up on their hind legs and doing anything about him, and I've sincere doubts about the Court. There is a world war looming and our leadership is doing nothing to prevent its onset. To all appearances, they're actually encouraging it.