U.S. forces destroyed three Iranian oil tankers Saturday after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an American aircraft carrier and destroyer — the latest volley in a six-month war with no defined exit strategy and no clear explanation for why U.S. warships are sitting in Iranian waters in the first place.
The establishment press is framing this as clean retaliation: Iran shot, we sank. But nobody in the briefing room is asking why two U.S. carrier groups are deployed within ballistic-missile range of a country we've been bombing since February.
CENTCOM said an American aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer
