"The US aircraft carrier Enterprise has been deployed to a strategic area that includes waters close to Iran. The warship joins two carriers already in the Fifth Fleet area of operations and strengthens the US Navy's biggest presence in the Gulf since the first Iraq invasion."

Some writers have speculated that this aging vessel might be "sacrificed" in order to provide a pretext for war, much as the battleships at Pearl Harbor were sacrificed half a century ago. Let's hope that they are wrong.

See: RTE Ireland article (2007-07)