What is the appropriate language for when the Iranian military tags American battleships?

Anything short of abject capitulation counts as aggression. Being the most powerful power in the history of power apparently also means being the loudest whiner in the history of whiners.

It is odd for a tradition that claims to play the Churchill to the left's Chamberlain that they spend so much time wetting their pants.

'course the 'old left' were historically pretty bad-ass, anyway. Sodding off to Spain to fight in the civil war, and the like.

Right-wingers always conveniently forget that Chamberlain was a Conservative. This is, of course, because they tend to make a habit of conveniently forgetting any facts that jibe with their 'right == manly; left == ghey' rhetoric.

We have gone to war over the doctrine of the freedom of the seas before. Taking potshots at passing traffic needs to be discouraged.