Iraq had, and has, almost no navy to speak of. It's access to the Persian Gulf is limited to a tiny slice of land in the disputed Shatt al-Arab, and the port city of Umm Qasr. Perhaps Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, had it been allowed to stand, would have enabled him, over time, to develop naval dominance of the Straits of Hormuz, but in 2002-3 that was about as likely as Ecuador seizing control of the Panama Canal. If Alan Greenspan thought there was any prospect of Saddam Hussein controlling the Straits of Hormuz then he is an idiot.
Straits of Hormuz????
Remaking history, what could have happened if he did cut Iran artillery from the straits coastline, is that the US would have engaged Iran openly, the moment an Arab proxy would have deprived the mollahs of their only "weapon of mass destruction" (a blocus). But we are entirely in a work of fiction here.
May be the whole timeline gets fuzzy in his heads, see it's over three decades and he's past 80 now... Pierre
Hey, that happened once. Remember Desert Storm? Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
If Alan Greenspan thought there was any prospect of Saddam Hussein controlling the Straits of Hormuz then he is an idiot.
Well, yes.
There's always that.
