Pictured: The Iran-flagged oil tanker Clavel, docked at Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar, Iran on February 25, 2019. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
History continues to offer lessons and strategy to Washington if only the Biden Administration had the wisdom to hear it.
Eighty years ago, the allies quickly realized that both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan fed their war machines on oil. In the Pacific, American submarines sank every enemy tanker on sight, choking off the crucial petroleum desperately needed by Japan. It would be part of a ground, naval and air strategy that ultimately brought surrender. In Europe, our air forces went after the refineries and the rail networks that were fueling the German military. At the end of that conflict, there were probably more disabled Tiger tanks from lack of fuel than from bazookas.
Let us be clear who today's enemy is in the Middle East.
Hamas may be carrying out the atrocities against Israeli civilians, but they are proxies of Iran.
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