Is it OK if your professional analysis is that the Iranians have your president by the balls?
Is it at all possible that he doesn’t realize that if he declares victory and departs the field *with the Strait closed* the global economic damage compounds.
[Ed: yes, yes, I know it’s possible. I just refuse to believe it.]
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission