Prof Chossudovsky: Romnography! Where is the Persian Gulf?

Romnography. Where's the Persian Gulf? Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's the route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel. According to Mitt Romney, presidential debate, October 23, 2012, seeing Syria remove Assad  is a very high priority for us. The Islamic Republic of Iran has an extensive maritime coastline bordering onto the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. Iran is an ally of Syria but dopes not have a border with Syria. For Iran's commodity trade to reach the Mediterranean by land through Syria would require transit through Iraq, presently under US military occupation, and /or Turkey, a US ally and NATO stronghold. D+ Romney has a degree from Harvard. So much for University standards. But let us analyze a more serious issue: What are the potential geopolitical consequences of Mitt Romney's sheer ignorance were he to become President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America? One recalls that George W Bush at the height of his election campaign in 2000 thought the Taliban were a "rock group". When a Glamor correspondent asked Governor Bush what he thought about the Taliban, he just shrugged his shoulders, bemused. It took a bit of prompting from the journalist ("discrimination against women in Afghanistan") for Bush to rouse himself. Taliban in Afghanistan! for Bush to rouse himself! Taliban in Afghanistan! Absolutely. Reprisals. I thought you were talking about some rock group. That's how well informed about the outside world the prospective US president is. Even about very important present day developments that are on everyone's lips, that is, everyone with the slightest pretensions to culture, developments that he, if elected, will have to deal with. The next president of the US will have to make some fundamental decisions of a diplomatic, strategic and military nature with regard to Iran, which require an understanding of both geography and geopolitics.