Back in January, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sent a special envoy to deliver his message for the Cuban president and his brother Fidel, and stressed Iran´s friendship and solidarity towards Cuba. During the meeting, Castro stressed on his “confidence that relations between Cuba and Iran will continue to get stronger, based on respect and gain”. Also In 2008, Iran granted Cuba a 200-million-Euro credit line to undertake several different projects. Would this be a great back door opportunity for countries like Iran with close ties to Cuba, to carry out possible terror acts. Castro always spoke against the United States, even dating back to 1951 when we defended South Korea. Castro has always been friends with our enemies, which makes sense in why he likes Obama, he seems to want to like them also.

You may already know, you have some of your brothers on duty over off the coast of Somalia; Scout Sniper Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit cross-decked from the USS Iwo Jima. Assigned to the USS San Antonio which is designated as the flagship of Combined Task Force 151. You would figure with these guys on duty they would just let them do their thing and this pirate stuff would go away. Much respect...

In 1998 and 2006, North Korea claimed to be trying to put a satellite into orbit. Both of these launch's failed, and the satellite's never made it into orbit. Again both times, the International community threatend to shoot them down and N.Korea said it would be an "act of war". Deja vu all over again, but this time may be different. I have failed trying new things before, but never three times in a row.

Kim Jong-il just wants to cause a stir and provoke us into shooting it down. Missiles are one of the few successful exports for North Korea. A failure would deal a blow to missile sales and embarrass North Korea. So with us shooting it down, it will still be a success to N. Korea because we did'nt give it a chance to fail. So I say lets give it to them and shoot it down over their own territory. Also Washington1789 well said....

Iran pursues a national security strategy, aimed at generating for the Islamic Republic the same security that conventional military capabilities, allies, and strategic depth -- all things Iran does not have. This strategy includes developing unconventional military capabilities, including at least nuclear weapons as a last-ditch deterrent. This has been their national security strategy for over a decade, before President Ahmadinejad was elected. If the United States and its allies want to stop Iran from going all the way to nuclear weaponization, they need to be prepared to address the Islamic Republic's most fundamental security concerns. Most notably to the supreme leader.