{"id":26694,"date":"2011-09-27T20:14:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T00:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26694"},"modified":"2011-09-27T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:02:49","slug":"popeye-imanutjobs-navy-plans-a-caribbean-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26694","title":{"rendered":"Popeye Imanutjob&#8217;s Navy Plans a Caribbean Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/27\/us-iran-us-navy-idUSTRE78Q3CQ20110927\" target=\"_blank\">Iran says could deploy navy near U.S. coast<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States&#8217; Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders,&#8221; the head of the Navy, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strategically the idea does have merit, from an Iranian point of view, however I can&#8217;t find any mention of their logistical capabilities. That kind of forward projection takes a LOT of support.\u00a0 They are pals with Hugo Chavez so that makes Venezuela a likely port of call.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads to the image of Iranian sailors on liberty call in one of Venezuela&#8217;s ports. Do they get drunk and chase women? Do they get drunk and chase goats? It&#8217;d have to be a culture shock for both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran says could deploy navy near U.S. coast Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending &hellip; <a title=\"Popeye Imanutjob&#8217;s Navy Plans a Caribbean Cruise\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26694\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popeye Imanutjob&#8217;s Navy Plans a Caribbean Cruise<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}