Ahh yes. And the US would never consider any provocative actions like actually encroaching on sovereign airspace utilizing a ghosted drone. <sarcasm>

In 1976 a USAF officer was axe hacked to death by a North Vietnamese at the DMZ.
I was in the USAF and the SAC base was put on full alert status.
And now we lost a drone and are talking about a "state of war".....

It is actually a very complex, perverse and convoluted plot to cast a shadow on today's big win of the USA Women's soccer team....... (Yes, sarcasm Sheldon ). C'mon people, chill a little bit and celebrate the win.

I've seen where we claim it crashed, but not the flight path. Rather importaint we do.

This is one of the reasons I support automated warfare. If it were a plane with an American citizen in it, everyone would be ready to go to war at the drop of a hat, even if we were violating their airspace. ( we most likely were riding on the edge of their airspace ) Because it was a machine, fewer people will believe the conflict they are pushing is justified, and that will lower the overall public support.

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin anyone?

That was a provocation that in reality never occurred as stated!

We spent over ten years with over 55,000 dead service members over 400,000 of them wounded and over 1,000,000 Vietnamese killed!

Are we that stupid to fall for the same type of shit over a drone this time???

I remember when we shot down one of their airliners, full of people.

But of course we will.

It was a 200 million drone. The price of 2 million mullahs. Let's go, get them!

What!?!
Shot down one of our drones???
Bastards!
Load MOABS in the C130s!
Spool up the air cavalry!
There's medals and campaign ribbons to be won!
Military contracts for "stuff" to be awarded!
We ride!!!

Well geeze. If it’s close enough to the border that it crash lands inside the border, then we can’t act all that shocked.

I'm against the use of drones for warfare in any capacity. Killing is easy when it's done from far away like you're playing a video game. Ever wonder why drone pilots commit suicide at a much higher rate than veterans with PTSD? Because they can't live with themselves once the reality that they've personally and remotely killed hundreds of people, many of whom were innocents and children and civilian non-combatants sets in would be my guess.

I think Trump wants war to boost his popularity and also because he wants to grind the entire world under his foot because he thinks he is omnipotent.

We're off their coast because of our ships and other allies' ships are there going through that channel. We have proof they put mines on tanker ships going through there already trying to blow them up.. What should we do, just let them blow our tankers up?