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Making friends: US kills Indian fisherman, wounds three in Persian Gulf

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"Rising tensions in the Persian gulf were apparent Monday" the Wall Street Journal announces this morning.  Why is that? I ask myself.  It seems Iran has some problem with the US presence there. Or could it be that a US ship fired .50 caliber shell at a small fishing boat killing one and critically injuring three.  All the victims were Indian nationals.  But like the hundreds, maybe thousands of civilians unmanned US drones have killed in Pakistan, these are accidents; the Pentagon doesn't mean it and will donate a hundred dollars or so to the victims families surely....."

For more, read the rest of the comment from Richard at Facts for Working People:

Making friends: US kills Indian fisherman, wounds three in Persian Gulf

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