Moron Mark Warner
“I don’t understand how blockading the Strait of Hormuz is going to somehow push the Iranians into opening it.”
Senator Mark Warner’s remarks on CNN this weekend made it clear that he has no business being on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
When asked about President Trump’s strategy in the Persian Gulf, Warner said, “I don’t understand how blockading the Strait of Hormuz is going to somehow push the Iranians into opening it. I don’t get the connection there.”
First, we are blocking Iran’s ports, not the Strait of Hormuz. Ninety percent of the Iranian regime’s revenue depends on oil sailing out of Iranian ports and through the Strait of Hormuz. While the conflict has raised oil prices, those high prices don’t do the Iranian regime any good if they can’t sell and ship their oil. Trump’s blockade is bankrupting Iran.
At the same time, it’s benefiting the United States. A record 171 oil tankers are now headed for U.S. refineries in the Gulf of America.
Warner also whined about the continued threat from Iran’s ballistic missiles. But Warner, other Democrats, and even Sen. Rand Paul were telling us that Iran’s growing missile stockpile wasn’t a threat to the United States. Now, they’re saying Trump hasn’t stopped the threat they previously claimed didn’t exist.
Perhaps the biggest surprise we discovered during this conflict was how large Iran’s conventional military build-up has been. It was all done to protect their nuclear weapons program and to control the Strait of Hormuz so that when they moved on Israel or we had to engage Communist China in the Pacific, we would suddenly discover that Iran was too strong to confront.
The whole narrative of the media and the Democrat Party is that Donald Trump is so dumb and has no idea what he is doing. Of course, the media will never challenge Warner or other Democrats by asking them, “What is your plan to prevent a disastrous future encounter with Iran?”
Their only response is “robust diplomatic negotiations.” But “robust diplomatic negotiations” under Barack Obama and Joe Biden are what allowed the Iranian regime to become so dangerous before President Trump decided to “lance the boil.”
