Mikey wrote:
So, what's your solution?
Send 100,000 or so troops to the Middle East to fight a pre-emptive war without raising any taxes to pay for it?
That worked out well last time, didn't it?
Go ahead and nuke them right now?
That would push your mushroom cloud up 10-15 years but wouldn't look so good on anybody's legacy.
Nothing?
Should push ever come to shove it wouldn't have to be anything so drastic.
We
can simply bomb their electrical grid and, while, we're at it, destroy their domestic refining capacity and their export terminals. Be kinda tough to run a nuclear weapons program on back up generators. We could completely trash their economy in two weeks. It would take them decades to recover.
IMO, this faux controversy is an merely an elaborate bit of theater. It's good cop-bad cop on an international scale. Even the Saudis are on board. Just stop and think about who is getting fucked hardest by them flooding the market with oil: Iran and Russia.