[norton]

"A blockage at the Straits of Hormuz could suspend the flow of more than half of the world's oil to the international market place from the six Persian Gulf oil producers..."

Has anyone stopped to wonder how those other producers might react to their neighbor's advertising a plan to cut off their source of income?

[Boot Hill]

Of course that's a good point and goes to underscore the degree to which Iran's leadership stopped thinking long before they stopped talking. We couldn't ask for a better opponent, than one that drives their potential allies into our arms.

[Allegra]

Has anyone stopped to wonder how those other producers might react to their neighbor's advertising a plan to cut off their source of income?

I wondered that, too. Kuwait, Saudi, the UAE...they may have some strong opinions about this.