Stop warning, start acting

Resident Obama continues to hamstring our navy as Iran bullies them in the Persian Gulf:

Three Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels approached the patrol ships USS Squall and USS Tempest at high speed in the northern Persian Gulf Wednesday; later in the day, a single Iranian ship came within 200 yards of the Tempest, which shot flares and used a loudspeaker to communicate.

The Iranian ship departed after the Tempest fired three shots from its .50-caliber machine gun into the water, U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet spokesman William Urban said.

Urban added the same Iranian ship which approached the Tempest later crossed the bow, or sailed through the path of, the guided-missile destroyer USS Stout, three times.

This is yet more of the theocracy in Iran seeing how far they can push. It's pure bully behavior, and the answer is the same as it's always been when it comes to dealing with bullies: a bloody nose. But no, we've got Commander-in-Chief Throws Like A Girl in the Oval Office, so instead the most powerful navy in the world is firing warning shots at a bunch of stinking peasants in inflatable boats. You want it to stop, you sink the boats. All of them. Ronald Reagan understood this; Barry Soetoro never will.