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They say that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war.
Now it's closed.
The problem hasn't been solved.
It's just been worsened and so on.
And my answer to that very simply is, what was your plan to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon?
What was your plan from stopping Iran from putting its nuclear program behind a wall of missiles and drones that was going to exact, that if allowed to continue to develop, was going to exact such a high price from the United States if it attacked them that we would never be able to use them we wouldn't have the military option.
So I think that what Donald Trump did was absolutely necessary.
If he hadn't done it, what the Americans and the Israelis together did was absolutely necessary.
If he hadn't done it, then every American base in the region was under threat.
And we were going to have a nuclear-armed Iran in very short order.
The price of doing anything about it was going to become prohibitive.
And we also had an Iran that could be the proxy of China.
In the event that we were to go, that China was to make a play for Taiwan, it would be able to close the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb and so on.
So I think we need to also see it in that global level.
So I give him very, very high marks for taking this on and expending the political capital that it took to do it.
2026-08-15 12:12 PM ET