Subject: Re: The US used its own 'Dark Fleet'
No. Refusing to engage isn't the same as dodging.

This is dodging - not refusing to engage. You make a clear statement that it looks like Operation Project Freedom didn't fail. Yet the evidence is clearly that it did. The operation failed to open the Strait.

Rather than acknowledge that, you're trying to dodge by raising the question of how one could define what it means for the Strait to be "open." But that's just evasion. It's not some ineffable conundrum whether a waterway that's still closed to 97% of traffic is "open" or not. It's not. It's still closed. Operation Project Freedom failed, and your statement was wrong.