New Gingrich wants to drop a nuke on the Strait of Hormuz. America actually looked at the same thing in 1977 in Latin America | Fortune
The idea for a new canal to move oil from the Middle East had emerged in the 1950s, in the context of another Middle East conflict, the Suez crisis.

Source: Fortune
The idea for a new canal to move oil from the Middle East had emerged in the 1950s, in the context of another Middle East conflict, the Suez crisis.