We'll deserve it you illiterate PEON
Posted on 08/27/2007 8:57:17 PM PDT by nuconvert
I don’t get much chance to listen to Glenn Beck, but he’s been talking for at least a year about the possibility of Iran blocking the Straits.
Answer = We unblock it with the most massive aerial bombardment the world has ever witnessed.
Short answer? Big trouble for Iran.
Good way to get the littorials around Hormuz nice and glassy. Imagine the value of that glass some 250,000 years from now.
Filling the straits with sunken ships would not exactly ease the blockage.
We'll deserve it you illiterate PEON
GOOD ANSWER !!!
What Happens If Iran Blocks The Strait Of Hormuz?
The Iranian navy gets smaller.
I was talking about bombing Iran. Into oblivion if necessary.
Hillary would bomb some empty tents like her hubby did, Obama Mohammed would ask for negotiations, but Duncan Hunter would blow them away.
But if the strait is made to be 20 miles wider and 3 miles deeper than it is now, that will take care of the blockage.
That's the real key here. It actually is quite difficult to physically block that strait, the more so for that action being the first part of a larger military engagement. It is easiest to threaten to, less easy but still not difficult to plant mines that threaten the ships, still less easy but feasible to combine this with an antiship missile threat from torpedo boats, at-sea platforms, or from the coastline itself either land- or air-based.
The threat alone can skyrocket the insurance premiums. Reagan answered that by placing ships under the U.S. flag and daring the Iranians to shoot at them. We know who blinked.
Now, an Iran armed with nuclear missiles - that's quite another threat. We're quite probably a few years away from its actuality but military planners have to take that very seriously indeed.
However, at some point the Iranians will be cutting their own throats too. They need the oil export as much or more than the oil customers do. So I see the threat as much more likely, and effective, than the reality. All IMHO and subject to debate, of course.
Well, she not talking to me. I'm a LITERATE peon.
The Shi’ite will hit the fan..
The US would just sit and watch 6 months of Negotiations through the UNited Nations before organizing another multinational coalition to unblock the Straight of Hormuz, and while at it, destroy Irans nuclear capabilities, and then the whole coalition would turn to Iraq and clean the country of Islamic Fascist pestilance.
I WOULD LOVE FOR IRAN TO BLOCK THE STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ
Go ahead you moonbat, jewish-genocidal, Iranian 12ther fother muckers!
Do it NOW!
How do you propose we do that?
But again, that doesn’t exactly address the issue of the Straits being blocked.
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