O’Reilly: Pentagon not war-gaming Strait of Hormuz a strategic error

Commentator Bill O’Reilly on Monday said the Pentagon’s strategic error in the Iran war is that it did not war-game the possibility of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.

“One major error by the Pentagon is they did not war-game the Strait of Hormuz. I can’t explain it; nobody knows why they didn’t,” O’Reilly told “Batya!” host Batya Ungar-Sargon on NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network.

“But certainly, that should have been taken into account. When you say if you don’t get regime change, if the mullahs tough it out, they’re going to try and strangle the world economy by screwing up the Strait of Hormuz.”

O’Reilly called the U.S. starting the conflict with Iran a “noble gesture to try and protect us and the world from a nuclear weapon that a terror state almost surely had.” But he emphasized that after “you start a war, and I said this at the very beginning, unintended consequences roll in, things that you never anticipated.”

He said other wars in U.S. history have had strategic errors, including the Vietnam and Korean wars and World War II. He said that “every single modern war has casualties,” such as the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, which killed more than 165 people, mostly children, at the start of the war on Feb. 28.

“A guy at the Pentagon did not wake up that morning and say, ‘I’m going to kill schoolgirls in........

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