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Originally Posted by Michael
Here is something everyone can understand. You think gas prices are high right now, just think how high they would be if we attack Iran. Iran's oil fields would shut down or greatly reduce their output. It would be my wild guess that the split second the speculators heard anything about an impending attack, there would be a rush to buy oil futures with the expectation of the price increase. This would increase the price at the pump even higher.
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I don't believe that a desire for material comforts and conveniences, however understandable and reasonable, should trump the need to protect our national security and guard against the possibility of national humiliation--as regarding which, there is no comfort or convenience, nor even any combination of them, so glorious as to make such a sacrifice worthwhile.
Iran's incipient nuclear program is a threat to our national honor, as a nuclear-armed Iran would be in a position to bully its neighbors into reducing oil production in order to drive up prices, thereby inflicting great economic damage upon The Great Satan; and the mullahs would expect the US to approach their terrorist regime obsequiously, thereby resulting in our national humiliation.
A nuclear-armed Iran is also a threat to the entire West, and especially so to Europe. But most of all, it is an existential threat to tiny Israel, which it could easily obliterate with nukes. Which is precisely why I believe Israel will never allow Tehran to acquire them, regardless of whether the Jewish state's air strikes receive Washington's stamp of approval.