policymakers-and too many military officers-have long forgotten. The headlines could have been ripped right out of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, when naval engagements with Iran became all-too commonplace. President Barack Obama must have spent last week wondering if he’d stumbled back into the 1980s as he responded to new Iranian aggressions in the Strait of Hormuz and ordered the Navy’s 5th Fleet to escort ships transiting the Persian Gulf. These views represent his own and not those of the U.S. Crist is the author of The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Penguin 2012).
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