This is the funniest thing I've ever read. An entire armada being assembled and no where on any news site in the world other than this blog is the story being told. I'll give you this; it's imaginative!

The second-funniest thing are the geographical/marine logistics involved. The Persian Gulf is a small, narrow inland sea. It's about 990 kilometers long and 55 kilometers wide. To access it, there's a single, 21-mile wide sea passage, the Straight of Hormuz. That Gulf could no more hold or sustain an enormous multi-national armada of more than 50 aircraft carriers, submarines, frigates, carriers or destroyers than could Lake Texoma on the border of Texas and Oklahoma.

Someone would have to hire an equally huge special forces team of air- and sea-traffic controllers just to manage the gridlock and let small, manageable "armada groups" take turns coming in and out through the Straight so everyone could take a turn threatening Iran. There would be so many collisions between F18s trying to fly to and from their carriers that it'd be hard to make actual bombing sorties, and at $41 million a plane, I'm thinking it's unlikely they'd risk those pricey birds. Besides, right now with the active conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, our country doesn't have the available resources to undertake an effort of this scope. Not that it would even if it did.

This made my day. It really did. Thanks for a great laugh.