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.
