As for the current concern about Iranian production, the energy analyst says consumers of Iranian crude are seeking alternatives, which helps explains crude’s surge at the end of 2011. But the idea that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. sanctions and Israeli provocations “can’t happen,” he says, citing the size of the channel, which is over 30 miles wide at its narrowest point.
“You need a gazillion boats to close that off [and] it would be suicidal if the Iranian Navy picked a fight with the U.S. Navy,” Stuart says. “A closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not an issue. What is an issue is tightening sanctions on Iran and Iran’s looming difficulty in selling its oil.”
Jan Stuart, head of energy research at Credit Suisse.
For every picture of our young servicemembers doing something wrong…
There are a hundred pictures of them doing something right. (I know; I made them!)
See:
“Little Girl,” Mosul, Iraq, 2005.
Photo by Michael Yon, independent combat journalist.
Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn’t make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.Read the rest here.
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