{"id":177809,"date":"2019-06-04T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/04\/captain-putnam-browne-is-not-a-fool\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:14:00","slug":"captain-putnam-browne-is-not-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/04\/captain-putnam-browne-is-not-a-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Putnam Browne is Not a Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IZKL4gE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IZKL4gE.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Donald Trump sent the Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) to the Persian Gulf to pressure Iran, but <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e28d5ce56956498ebf54dc7190e548a3\">it is remaining outside of the Persian Gulf<\/a> in Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>When you consider the restricted waters of the the Gulf this is a common sense move.<\/p>\n<p>If the Lincoln were in the Gulf, the Iranians would know exactly where they are, and any attack would have a reaction time of a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This guy is not painting a target on his back in order to promulgate John Bolton&#8217;s stiffy for regime change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A U.S. aircraft carrier ordered by the White House to rapidly deploy to the Mideast over a perceived threat from Iran remains outside of the Persian Gulf, so far avoiding any confrontation with Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces amid efforts to deescalate tensions between Tehran and Washington.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Officers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln repeatedly told The Associated Press on Monday they could respond rapidly to any regional threat from their position, at the time some 320 kilometers (200 miles) off the eastern coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">However, after decades of American aircraft carriers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a third of all oil traded at sea passes, the U.S. Navy\u2019s decision to keep the Lincoln away is striking.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cYou don\u2019t want to inadvertently escalate something,\u201d Capt. Putnam Browne, the commanding officer of the Lincoln, told the AP.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, you know, the whole getting sunk thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump sent the Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) to the Persian Gulf to pressure Iran, but it is remaining outside of the Persian Gulf in Indian Ocean. When you consider the restricted waters of the the Gulf this is a common sense move. If the Lincoln were in the Gulf, the Iranians would know exactly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[411,378,379,445],"class_list":["post-177809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}