This also from the American Thinkers:
There were many good reasons for the United States and Israel to finally move against Iran this month, and the need to end the Iranian mullahs’ control of their clients in nearby countries—Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, etc.—is at the top of that list.
However, if regime change in Iran also enables the Houthis to be defanged and the Suez Canal to be reopened at last—as it must—the billion-dollar-per-day transportation savings to the world economy that result from it will, in itself, have made it all worthwhile.
This isn’t about Israel and the United States alone; it’s about every developed and developing nation on earth. Everyone uses the Suez Canal; everyone needs it.
Errr nazzo fast, Guido. I appreciate that the Suez Canal may be an important sealane, so to speak, and most certainly for Yurp and Britishland. But is it that important to the U.S.? I’m thinking, not. Most of our trade comes from the Far East over the Pacific, and from Yurp over the Atlantic. I’m struggling to think what doesn’t use either of those routes; and if so, why would we care — other than for purely altruistic reasons, i.e. to bail the Euros out of yet another mess — to intervene in the Red Sea?
For that matter, the Straits of Hormuz aren’t that important to Magaland either; as DJT has pointed out, the U.S. gets nary a single barrel of oil out of the Persian Gulf because we roll our own.
Now I can see why Suez might be an important military thoroughfare for our Navy, each time we want to leave the Mediterranean Sea to whack Persian pee-pee, so to speak. But even that is not a priority, really.
Discuss.