Senator Kennedy Suggests Trump Ditch Iran War and Leave Hormuz Closed: ‘We’ve Accomplished Most of Our Goals’

The United States should “continue doing what we’ve been doing” in Iran, said Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) Friday.

While speaking on The Will Cain Show on Fox News, Kennedy said, “The sanctions, the blockade, for a while. Of course, everyone has an eye on the price of oil. But it’s about $88 today, $88 and change. I’m not minimizing the rise in the price of gasoline. Nobody wants that. But on exported oil, not Iranian exported oil, the world’s oil is actually getting through. We don’t know how much, and they won’t tell us, but I think you also have to keep perspective.”

He added:

Number one, some people say, make a deal. Dealing with the Iranian government, it’s like dealing with a wild pack of monkeys. I mean, they’re crazy. You can’t — you can’t take their word. I wouldn’t take their word for the same reason that I don’t drink water out of a toilet. You can’t trust them. Number two, we have accomplished most of why we went into Iran. We have degraded their military. We’ve degraded their economy. I mean, we’ve torn them into an ashtray. It will take them 20 years to climb out of the hole.

But there is a “problem,” he added: what to do about the Strait of Hormuz.

“And I don’t have an answer for that. But in the meantime, I don’t think anybody does,” Kennedy continued. “That’s up to the Iranians. It would be an option. I’m not saying I would do it, but it would certainly be an option at some point, now that we’ve accomplished most of our goals, for us to come home.”

Watch the above via Fox News.

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