What an incredible ability to shoot straight through to the fringe of the subject...
I'm just telling you what will happen if the neocons get their war against Iran. Whether or not I'm "worried" about sky-high gas prices and a recession or depression is beside the point: That's what's going to happen.
And by the way, the Soviets had nuclear weapons for 40 years - aimed right at our cities - and we didn't need to invade the Soviet Union in order to protect ourselves or defeat them.
China also has nuclear weapons. One of their generals has threatened they'll use them on LA if we defend Taiwan. But nobody's talking about invading China. This neocon obsession with invading Arab countries shows a very selective concern about dictators and nuclear weapons. The concern is strictly limited to the middle east -- and that's why I don't give the neocons much credibility, because if they really believed it's necessary to invade countries in order to protect ourselves against them (as opposed to using containment as we did against the Soviets), why are they only interested in invading countries in the middle east? Their obsession with US military action in the middle east is going to cause us a recession or depression, if they're successful in making their invasion fantasies reality. Fortunately, I think Bush is starting to wise up to their jibe - that's why he's got Condaleeza and his Iraq ambassador talking with the Iranians instead of threatening an invasion. He realizes that the necocons sold him a bill of goods with the Iraq invasion, and he's not going to follow their lead into new unnecessary conflicts.