USS Cole out at sea

Look, on the horizon, the USS Cole!!! Oh wait, that's a guy fishing. Anyway, it, and other US warships are out there off the Lebanese coast in order to keep "stability in the region." You know, like how in Iraq the frequency in which bombings happen in crowded markets has become pretty stable. (by the way, it's not easily visible here, but many of those rocks in the sea are still stained with black from the spilled oil that happened after Israel's bombing of seaside power plants that really polluted the Mediterranean sea everywhere north of where it happened. Coincidence that they knew the oil would only flow north and not south to the beautiful Haifa beaches? I don't think so.)