Why does one even bother, arguing with some people. Ahmadinejad would certainly attempt nuclear blackmail against the Saudi fields. He also has a strong alliance with Venezuela and Ecuador; two other major OPEC players, any action along any of those axis, including Nigeria and Mexico would have that kind of result Another says, let it blow up, that’s remarkably cavalier. Are you really going to pass of we consume 20% of the world’s resources
garbage. Do you really consider nationalized oil companies a good option, ridiculous> No it’s the same view that gave us Landon and Wilkie, also rans who let Roosevelt’s economic mismanagement off the hook. That gave us Nixon in the 70s, who proceded to mess up a good deal of the economic architecture. ‘wage and price controls, among other things. Are you going to say that Vietnam was the wrong war at the wrong time; considering the track record of the JFK and Johnson administration on their most proximate problem in the Caribbeans I’d probably agree. The difference we were never in a shooting war with the Russians, we are and have been with Baathist, Iranian guard corpsmen
and Wahhabi Ilkwan, for the better part of two decades.
