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2 great ideas on how to deal with the Iran war consequences that Trump should consider

As we enter the fourth week of the Iran war (or “excursion”), here are two great ideas about how to deal with some of the consequences — both from outside the Beltway.

In fact, right in New York.

One idea, unusually, is from longtime President Trump critic and former swamp creature Richard Haass, now back in his hometown.

The other is from Wall Street guru Larry Kudlow, Trump’s great friend and former economic advisor.

Both ideas are elegantly unconventional.

In his Substack last week, Haass took a moment from trashing the president to suggest an alternative to boots on the ground for the prickly problem of opening the Strait of Hormuz, where tankers carrying one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas are being throttled by Iran.

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Don’t send the marines in to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s principal export terminal — just close the Strait.

“Open for All or Closed to All” is the preferred option for Haass, a veteran Bush-era diplomat and former president of the Manhattan-based Council on Foreign Relations.

That way China and India will be incentivized to pressure Iran to get it open.

Currently, apart from its own ships, these are the only countries Iran is allowing to get any oil or gas through the strait, with Iran’s biggest customer, China, getting the lion’s share.

 Pakistan and Turkey have........

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