U.S. military moves carriers, denies Iran link

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://news.yahoo.com/u-military-moves-carriers-denies-iran-023925806.html

ReutersBy Phil Stewart | Reuters – Wed, Jan 11, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday that a new aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in the Arabian Sea and that another was on its way to the region, but denied any link to recent tensions with Iran and portrayed the movements as routine.

The shift in the powerful U.S. naval assets comes at a moment of heightened tensions with Iran, which has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz - the world's most important oil shipping lane - if U.S. and EU sanctions over its nuclear program cut off its oil exports.

The U.S. military has said it will halt any blockade of the strategic strait and the top U.S. naval officer acknowledged on Tuesday that preparing for a potential conflict there was something that "keeps me awake at night."

[tabatha]

1. Iran is meeting with the UN on Jan 28 to discuss their nuclear program.

I do not think (I hope) that there will be a war with Iran.

[phasma ex machina]

2. Given the quantity of airbases within a short flying distance of Iran, the mission of obsolete WWII

era aircraft carrier groups seems limited to: 1. providing make work for Admirals waiting to retire, and 2. providing provocative drama for the political theater.

Just an observation. I too am already against the next war.