You can terrorize something, you can hold it at issue with piracy. As I've talked about at the Pentagon podium time and time again. That doesn't mean you control it. We control what goes in and out and we control whether or not we have to restart conflict. The President does as well, Mr. Secretary. We're the ones that will manage where this goes in the future and they have very limited ability to set the tempo or respond to it. (03:43–03:48)
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Asserts that the U.S. controls what goes in and out of the Strait of Hormuz and the decision to restart conflict.
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