News Round-Up and Comment

Below is a brief list of news items covered by Jim on this week's edition of the 'Round-Up.'

--A U.S. high altitude Navy drone was shot down on Wednesday by an Iranian surface-to-air missile in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.
--U.S. officials told Fox News that Iranian-backed forces fired cruise missiles into Saudi Arabia Wednesday evening, hitting a power plant.
--A senior advisor to the Iranian government said war is inevitable if the U.S. does not lift sanctions against Iran.
--President Trump 'tweeted' that he backed off from retaliation against Iran for the drone strike upon finding out that about 150 Iranians would die in the effort. He didn't believe that loss of life was proportionate to the downing of an unmanned drone.