OK. [Hav­ing watched the video of the Iran­ian speed boats “swarm­ing” the U.S. naval vessels](http://www.defenselink.mil/news/briefingslide.aspx?briefingslideid=320), I’m left with a strong sense of being under­whelmed. That’s it? Some­thing out of “[Miami Vice](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430357/)”? Where are the white boxes that were spo­ken of in the ini­tial reports? What’s the deal with the weird robotic monot­one? And again, why was this put out when it was, on the eve of Pres­i­dent Bush’s trip to the Mid­dle East in a bid to round up oppo­si­tion to Iran?
Mind you, I am *not* ques­tion­ing the per­for­mance or patri­o­tism of the sailors involved. They per­formed exactly as they’re sup­posed to. What I am say­ing is that something’s off about this on the Pentagon’s end.