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The first time a New York Times writer had to type that Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz was slipping, Glenn Beck guessed the editor sat with his head in his hands. An oil analyst who tracks tankers for a living had posted five words Beck had been waiting seven months to read: "Iran has lost control of Hormuz." Kepler, a firm that watches every ship on the water, now estimates close to 13 million barrels a day coming out of the Gulf—far more than anyone expected, with most moving dark, transponders off, oil pumped from one tanker to another in open water. Last week at the United Nations, Iran sent an offer through Qatar: meet our conditions and we'll reopen the strait in seven days. The president said no.

The Anaconda Strategy

Beck's central argument is that the administration's maximum pressure campaign against Iran is working, but only if the president holds the course. He draws a direct parallel to the Civil War's Anaconda Plan—the strategy of surrounding the South, closing ports, taking the river, and squeezing until there was nothing left. The newspapers mocked it as boring and incompetent. A cartoonist drew a giant snake wrapped around the South. The crowds wanted to march to Richmond. But the snake became the backbone of the strategy that won the war.