Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
That is, quite simply, a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened. The US government officially attempted to blame it on Iran, but the facts of that occurrence point overwhelmingly point to huge mistakes on the part of the US cruiser that blew them up, similar to how Russians shot down an airliner a few years ago, the Soviets shot down KAL 007 and we shot down an F-18 just a few months ago. You really need to go back and read the story of what happened. Just like all those other governments screwed one up, we screwed this one up.
BS narrative that evolved after the fact.
I actually knew some of the folks involved. The CO was aggressive, but he was also in combat and entitled to protect his ship and crew if in doubt. There is always fog of war, even more so when the engagement is happening in the middle of densely populated water and airways. No sympathy, Iran should have just canceled commercial flights over the gulf while they were attacking US forces. I'm pretty sure the regime kind of hoped something like that would happen. They definitely did not mind when it did.
You work for the FAA, you know darn well that WE would have closed the airspace, not just kept launching unwitting martyrs into the line of fire.
There were lessons learned for future reference. But the powers that be didn't monday morning QB the guy.