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McSpiff2/17/2011 6:59:22 am PST

re: #87 BishopX

So closing the canal to a vessel is tantamount to an act of war? I’m trying to parse what all the fuss about a hypothetical Islamist Egypt closing the canal to US warships is about.

Its a violation of treaty, which normally wouldn’t be an act of war. However the canal is vital to basically every seafaring nation. It would be opened, ‘legally’ or not.