The shooting occurred off the coast of Jebel Ali, a city approximately 30 miles from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. A Navy official said the offending vessel was a white pleasure craft, but a UAE official told ABC News it was a fishing boat with four Indians and two Emirates on board. Although officials downplayed any terrorist connection or Iranian contact neither should be ruled out and in any case we should defend ourselves and our assets.
The hope is that Obama can be unseated so that we can defend ourselves and our interests properly. It would be helpful if we could extract our assets and let the neighbors of Iran deal with them directly; at the same time, the Europeans should step up to the plate and defend their own interests.
We should not be dragged into being the policeman for the region while we develop our own natural resources on our own continent.