[saganite]

If Reagan------- were calling the shots, the Iranian Navy would have been turned into new reef material by now.


You mean like in Beirut?

[Ronin]

Toche!

[Pox]

I'd be thinking more along the lines of Grenada.

[AmericaUnited]

If Reagan------- were calling the shots, the Iranian Navy would have been turned into new reef material by now.

You mean like in Beirut?

No, I mean like this...from the WSJ...

It is worth recalling, however, that Iran was at its most diplomatically pliant after the United States sank much of Tehran's navy after Iran tried to disrupt oil traffic in the Persian Gulf in the late 1980s. Regimes that resort to force the way Iran does tend to be respecters of it.