The answer, of course, is the shipping lane for oil. In strategic terms, you control Bab el-Mandeb; and you are will on you way to controlling the Red Sea. Who would benefit the most by such control of this major shipping lane? Think no further than Iran. Iran has been promoting the Islamification of Egypt, which is now controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, Ethiopia, and Yemen. Iran already for all practical purposes controls the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. It is startling to see how just in the past eighteen months that Iran has put a straggle hold on this entire region. And, what is the United States doing about all of this? We are simply trying a diplomacy of "appeasement." Such a policy has major negative global ramifications. You just might want to get out your world atlas and check out the location of Bab el-Mandeb and the Strait of Hormutz.
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