“We cannot leave the Mideast any time soon. The region is the locus of a great many sea lanes: Gibraltar, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Tiran, Bosporus, Hormuz, etc.”
Funny as! Please buy a map! Gibraltar? Bosporus? Moved? Hormuz? Fairly immaterial.
The area would be fine if America hadn’t interfered in 1947!