Speaker 1: Here's a report that
an army helicopter went down in the strait.
Can you give us an update on that?
Are the soldiers okay?
Speaker 2: The pilots are fine. Nobody injured.
We are going to issue a report tomorrow,
but the pilots are fine.
We're very close to having a
very good, strong, powerful deal.
If we go and bomb,
which we can do very easily if we want,
and we spend another two or three weeks bombing,
they'll have nothing left whatsoever.
But you won't have the strait open for months.
If we do the bombing
a lot of people are going to be killed.
Who wants to do that? I know.
We'll have a signed document that's
actually stronger than doing the bombing.
What has proven to be
a very powerful thing is the blockade.
The blockades turn out to be much stronger than bombing.
It was really a combination.
It was our initial thrust and then the blockade.
But their economy is
really suffering and they're going to make a deal.