Editing Operation Preying Mantis (section)

==COMMENTS BY KEN==

The response of the disUnited Nations and by the International Court of inJustice are only two examples in the long and tiresome list of anti-Americanism that can be found around the world. Had any of the pinheads in either organization spent any time in the Gulf of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf like I did, they might have possibly been a position to render a fair judgment on this incident. 

However as usual these supposed 'intellectual giants' sat in their air conditioned offices, in their silk suits, in Geneva and New York, while people like me were fighting heat stroke in one hundred plus degree temperatures at one hundred percent humidity. We were the ones dodging mines, daily rocket attacks and as usual, we’re the ones that the fingers get pointed at.

Needless to say I find it very difficult to do anything other than laugh at the UN and other world organizations. It’s impossible to take such groups seriously when they operate on a level that is so profoundly ignorant that one wonders how these people even find there way out of bed in the morning, let alone make it to their offices each day. 

It is also necessary to point out that our military actions on that day were not specifically to protect our national interests as the court erroneously states. Operation Earnest Will was taking place at the blessing of the UN (for whatever that’s worth) and at the request of the dozens of nations around the world who depend on the oil which flows directly from the Gulf of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf. Ships from the Navy’s of England, France, Spain, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to name just a few also took part in this Operation. 

Due to my direct participation in this operation I was awarded with a Meritorious Unit Commendation and an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.