The Strait That Holds the World to Ransom - A Guest Perspective
The Strait That Holds the World to Ransom - A Special Guest's Perspective Sometimes individuals, or even governments, become so intoxicated by a minor " victory" that they forget the world is far larger than the deadlock they have created . Today in Tehran, some believe that because their finger is on the trigger and they have taken the world's oil flow in the Strait of Hormuz hostage, the entire world must kneel before them . They speak confidently of a "new Hormuz order" and imagine the era of negotiation is over-that it is now time to collect ransoms and dictate terms to the world's vessels . But history is a ruthless teacher . Let us look back to 1986; back to Al-Faw . In those days, when we captured Al-Faw, that same sense of invincibility blinded us . We imagined that by seizing that peninsula, we held the key to a victorious end to the war . We grew so arrogant over that conquest that we forgot the enemy was rebuilding it...