India, April 5 -- Did Donald Trump think through the implications of his attack on Iran? Did he not realise that the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow maritime passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, functions as a critical artery for global energy flows and other important products such as fertilisers, crucial for the world's agriculture? Probably not. After all, when you appoint a chat-show host as your defense secretary, an Evangelical Christian who has explicitly framed the Middle East war through the lens of his faith, making it clear that it is "Jesus versus Muhammed", you are unlikely to get any sensible military advice. Any schoolboy or schoolgirl could have told Trump that the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fift...