What happens to the world economy if 30% of the oil is cut off overnight?
Posted on 03/03/2006 3:13:47 PM PST by HardStarboard
Pre-empting Iran's ambitions TODAY'S COLUMNIST By Ilan Berman March 3, 2006
With some sort of showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions looming on the horizon, a divisive new foreign policy debate has sprung up in Washington. At issue is whether the United States can and should carry out a pre-emptive attack on Iran's numerous nuclear facilities.
Proponents of military action contend that the United States is capable of quickly and effectively neutralizing Iran's nuclear program through a few surgical aerial strikes. Detractors, meanwhile, say that such steps are not feasible, and if attempted will create catastrophic regional consequences.
Few doubt that the United States has the operational capability to carry out such a strike. But "pre-empting" Iran's nuclear program is likely to be an elaborate and costly affair -- and one with very real risks for the United States and its allies in the Middle East.
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What happens to the world economy if 30% of the oil is cut off overnight?
What happens to the world economy if the m$$lahs get the nuke and blackmail their enemies (US and Israel)?
Better than nuclear war. Thats for sure.
What happens (I hope) is that China loses her oil and enjoys the same economic consequences as the rest of the world or worse. What happens to Russia, the real source of most of the problem and the author of some belated and half-hearted attempts to solve it, I do not know.
I have believed for over 3 years now that the response to 9/11 was to surround Iran in the end run.
Iran has been the worst offender of terrorism, creating hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and supporting each and every terrorist organization that has anything to do with Islam.
Jimmy Carter should have sent us in.
http://rescueattempt.tripod.com
Makes you wonder if Jimmy Carter ever had the guts to meet with the guys after the attempt. I doubt it.
I'm not saying the alternative is better. I'm just saying the choices are so bad, we will probably muddle along in hopes the apple cart is not overturned.
I do know that Ahmadinejad is insane, and his goal is to create the conditions of the apocolype.
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Is that second pic the infamous "sunburn?"
A choke point for sure. However, there are ways to avoid such a development.
Jimmy Carter should go down in history with such notables as Arnold, Chamberlain, and Quisling. I.E., a byword.
Yes. Mach 3+ sea skimmer, with terminal jinking.
Such as?
I've seen academic (college level) interviews with Carter.
He thinks he handled the whole Iranian CF rather well.
Pipe lines.
How much crude oil can be transferred via pipelines if the Hormuz is cut? I mean, right away, with no disruptions.
The real target being the global economy.
Carter was like many others. He didn't have a clue about the thinking of radical Islamists. More than 50 years ago, Fulton Sheen pointed out that the Muslim world was in the grip of a fever. The "realists" insisted on ignoring their irrationality. They shared the secularists belief that people were bound to get less religious as time wore on. That's why Carter did not understand the significance of Sadat's murder.
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