■ The widely circulated online argument that Oman's basic policy is merely to "maintain channels of dialogue with Iran in order to prevent it from recklessly turning the Strait into a sea of fire" seems comparable to claiming that Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini and Japan under Hideki Tojo deliberately maintained an anti-American, far-right military alliance with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in order to restrain Hitler from committing even more inhumane acts in the occupied Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
■ Such sophistry could never have justified the military alliance between Mussolini's Italy, Tojo's Japan, and Hitler's Nazi Germany, nor the series of military operations they conducted against the Allied Powers. It would have rung hollow then, just as it does now.
■ If Oman's conduct in cooperating with Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is fundamentally different from the conduct of Mussolini's Italy and Tojo's Japan in aligning themselves militarily with Hitler's Nazi Germany, then does Oman not bear the burden of explaining to the international community why the two situations should be regarded as materially different?
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■ The widely circulated online argument that Oman's basic policy is merely to "maintain channels of dialogue with Iran in order to prevent it from recklessly turning the Strait into a sea of fire" seems comparable to claiming that Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini and Japan under Hideki Tojo deliberately maintained an anti-American, far-right military alliance with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in order to restrain Hitler from committing even more inhumane acts in the occupied Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
■ Such sophistry could never have justified the military alliance between Mussolini's Italy, Tojo's Japan, and Hitler's Nazi Germany, nor the series of military operations they conducted against the Allied Powers. It would have rung hollow then, just as it does now.
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■ If Oman's conduct in cooperating with Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is fundamentally different from the conduct of Mussolini's Italy and Tojo's Japan in aligning themselves militarily with Hitler's Nazi Germany, then does Oman not bear the burden of explaining to the international community why the two situations should be regarded as materially different?