Some of you have a little grasp on what the Iranians were trying to do. Ok say the ship fired. The Iranians accuse of us being belligerent. It gets spread around the world... "Oh the bad US is attacking another country." It plays right in the Iranians and the Islomafacists hands. "The US not only attacked Iran they attacked Islam." Sorry, the US didn't bite. Now lets take this one step further, as you can see those boats didn't look very military. So not only did the US attack the Iranians. They also attacked unarmed civilians who were out at sea for some fun. That is how the world would see it. They were trying to provoke and incident and we didn't bite. You have to think like a chess game with these morons. Now that the world has seen we have practiced restraint, if it does come down to a shooting match in another such incident, it will fall into our favor. I have said it once and I say it again discretion is the better part of valor.