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To: Eleutheria5

The question is what would it take to reopen the Strait, and would the precipitate war?

2 posted on 01/08/2012 2:29:50 PM PST by Brilliant

To: Brilliant

Ah, don’t be like the liberals and ask the question backward. BLOCKING the strait could precipitate a war.

5 posted on 01/08/2012 2:47:54 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)

To: Brilliant

The Iranian leaders know that the American military will be too busy arresting and detaining American citizens.

A war has never been averted from a position of weakness.

11 posted on 01/08/2012 3:13:27 PM PST by Know et al (The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.)

To: Brilliant

That’s no question. It would take a war to reopen the straight. Period.

15 posted on 01/08/2012 3:46:50 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)

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