A war against Iran will send gas prices in US up by at least a dollar a gallon, maybe higher (while we don't use Iran oil directly, Japan does, and it'll be competing for us for oil from other sources). The Iraq war is already responsible for some of the gas increase that's acting as a tax on Americans. Call it the "neo con war tax". It'll be much much higher - and a recession or depress the result - if you neocons get your war against Iran. Too bad everybody will have to pay your tax, in the form of crushingly high gas taxes, and not just you war-lovers.
What an incredible ability to shoot straight through to the fringe of the subject...
Yeah yeah...sure sure....so buy a yugo and STFU...
3 bucks a gallon is a small price to pay to keep Isreal from becoming a smoking crater...
Like they wouldnt respond to an Iranian nuke anyways..
Dufuss...
Too bad...so sad...
Dear Mr. Buchanan,
You may recall that back in '79 Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian theocrats authorized "radical students" (one of whom may well have been the current MFWIC of Iran) to invade US territory (our embassy), and take US citizens hostage. Since that time the Iranians (and their surrogates) have been implicated in the suicide bombing of our Marines in Lebanon, hostage takings in Lebanon, the Pan Am/Lockerbie bombing, and (possibly) the Khobar Towers operation. I bring up these inconvenient historical tidbits to suggest that the Iranians have never shown any hesitancy attacking American citizens and American interests at times and places of their choosing. The Iranian radicals even backed down "Ronaldus Magnus" Reagan, a fact duly noted by Osama Bin Laden. What makes the Iranian theocracy particularly dangerous is that they believe that the "Will of Allah" (as interpreted by the senior Ayatollah) dictates and guides their decisions. Something which makes them infinitely less predictable than the leaders of the former Soviet Union, Kim Jong Il or Hugo Chavez, all of whom could/can be relied on to do what will preserve their personal power. The possession of nuclear weapons by a theocratic regime like Iraq is tantamount to selling WMDs to a Jim Jones or a David Koresh. It is both an intolerable and an unpredictable situation, that transcends any considerations of short term economic impact or partisan political consequence.
For the record, by definition I cannot be a "neocon". I am not a "used to be" liberal who still believes in an expansive Federal government on the domestic side, while supporting an aggressive foreign policy internationally.
"...if you neocons get your war against Iran."
Excuse me? You make very little sense, especially the part about neo-cons is really stupid and bigoted.
If we nuke 'em, so be it, but it's not because of some "secret cabal of neo-cons".
No one really knows how this is all going to turn out, but so far the Bush team has been making all the right moves, and will probably do so with the "Iranian Crisis".
Proud to be a NEO-CON!