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Strait talk: Iran’s Hormuz attacks must end the ‘phony peace’

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An early period of World War II was known as “the phony war.” 

What we may be witnessing now in the US-Iran war is the end of a “phony peace.”

The nearly five-month-long conflict has featured a couple of sham ceasefires, each marked by supposed Iranian pledges to re-open the Strait of Hormuz that came to nothing.  

With the Iranians firing on shipping on the Strait again, President Donald Trump has declared the so-called memorandum of understanding signed about a month ago a dead letter.

After lifting sanctions on Iranian oil and ending the US blockade of Iranian ports, Trump has re-instituted both.

He maintains that the United States will control the Strait, and at some point charge a 20% fee on all shipping for our trouble (one assumes that this idea, at variance with our contention that tolling the Strait is illegal, will be a non-starter).

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