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To: robert a belfer who wrote (156767)	2/5/2006 5:55:52 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793718

They tried. Aircraft from the USS Enterprise sent them to meet Davy Jones in his locker But they obviously didn't press it. They were in the middle of an 8 year war with Iraq. We're in a different set of facts now. Iran is in the docket, and its perceived vital national interests are at stake. What happened in the 80s was a sideshow - a scuffle. We weren't in the ring. Now we are. We'll cream them, of course. That isn't even debatable, IMO. But they'll put up a fight if it gets to blocking the Straits and overt hostilities. That's all that's required to accomplish their goal - block the flow of oil and create economic pressure to drop the pressure on them. And they have other means of giving us a headache, simultaneously. Iran is a stickier problem than Iraq was. It's a real chess game. Derek