Ret. Adm. James Stavridis on Trump to Declare Hormuz US Territory: It Flies in the Face of What We ‘ve Stood for in ‘Terms of International Law’

RUSH EXCERPT:
STAVRIDIS: "I just don‘t understand. Clearly, the Strait of Hormuz is an international strait. It‘s an international body of water. It needs to be open to all nations to go back and forth. So if we‘re going to object to Iranian control of it, the idea that we are going to suddenly become the owner and operator of this strait flies in the face of everything that we have stood for in terms of, international law, and particularly international maritime law. But let‘s go back to. Abraham Lincoln for a minute. The carrier. I spent about a year embarked in that carrier when I was a navy captain. And these are extraordinary machines of war. You know very well you were embarked just a week or two ago, and it‘s 5000 people on the carrier, and it appears it‘s under, uh, a pretty, uh, pronounced level of stress that‘s coming across from the crew and the crew members. Uh, as you and I have talked about and you were there, it‘s 5000 people. It‘s a small town, and there are going to be differing views on what they‘re doing. So bottom line, I think what the navy ought to focus on right now is finding out exactly what the conditions are on the carrier, number one. Number two, get the carrier home because they‘ve been out to sea. Uh, setting records. And I‘D invite everybody on the panel. Anybody listening? Just think where you were last November 21st when they deployed and think about all the holidays, the birthdays, everything, uh, that you would have missed. And oh, by the way, they‘ve been at sea, they‘re not pulling into port. So it‘s a situation that requires the navy to take a hard look at what‘s going on, get the carrier back. I think the navy is moving in that direction on both sides, but I‘ll, uh, I‘ll leave it to the political panel to discuss, uh, the back and forth, but that‘s a bit of perspective on the naval side of things."