No. of Recommendations: 12
Give up their nuclear weapons program, the one they always claimed to never have.
What Vance said was words to the effect, give up their weapons program, and anything that could ever be used for a weapons program. I read that as never having any sort of enrichment capability, and never having any U. The deal the Omani mediator was saying they were closing in on was Iran downmixing the 60% U they have to power plant grade, and be able to produce fuel for their reactor in the future.
They sailed in, they sailed out. The next phase the Navy works on is clearing a mine-free channel.
Sailing a couple Burke class DDGs through an uncleared minefield is foolhardy. Those ships cost over $2B each. As we found when Iran was mining the Gulf 40 years ago, tankers can take a mine hit better than a DD or a Frigate, due to their size.
And, once a mine field is cleared, it can be relaid again. Really, it doesn't take much of a boat to lay mines. Does Trump the Conqueror want to use a multi-million dollar missile to destroy every dhow in the area?
Steve
