Newt Gingrich and the Party of Ideas

Newt Gingrich Proposes Nuclear Blasts To Create New Channel

The Strait of Hormuz is such a problem that the former Speaker thinks we should just drop some bombs and create a new channel instead.

Newt Gingrich and the party of ideas

Newt Gingrich — I regret that these two words are not followed by “has died,” so sorry to get peoples’ hopes up, especially since I’ve got a feeling that Erik’s obit is going to be thermonuclear — has some fresh ideas about what to do about the whole Strait of Hormuz kerfuffle, although strictly speaking they don’t appear to be original: Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory.…