A Better Way to Patrol the Middle East

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In late August 1987, we had plans to totally shut down Iran, but could not get authority to execute them. This was a tragic political mistake. In a Jan. 5 article, John Hannah from the Foundation of Defense of Democracies states that when the cruiser USS Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iranian civilian airliner in July 1988, killing all 290 aboard, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini quickly sued for peace with Saddam Hussein. Khomeini thought the United States was entering the war on Iraq’s side and that the Iranian theocracy would be doomed.
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