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I wrote:
"good answer from the FR subscriber who apparently does not believe that our world is rendered by boob tube propagandists."

You (ExSoldier) replied:
"I don't get it. Explain for this poor brain dead high school government teacher at the end of another tough year in the inner city?"

Expatguy said that Iran is building nukes. I was thinking the same, given that Iran recently conducted new missile tests with Korean missiles (possible ~4000 kilometer range) and refused to allow the IAEA to look at a heavy water facility (links earlier in the thread). Iranian engineers were publicly reported to have been in North Korea's missile tests (or was that the nuke test?) a few months ago.

I mentioned "boob tube propagandists," because news (opinion) reporters have been leaning toward broadcasting for general complacency effect. They often present Iran as being too backward or too involved in intra-Islamic conflicts (e.g., Shiite v. Sunni) to develop nuclear weapons or cause much trouble in Iraq (though Iran has been training Sunnis). There's also the contrived misconception that Iran would be nice, if only bad, old Ahmadinejad were put down. ...and other convincing political speech methods.

Advertising sponsors and others are afraid that prices will go up (especially due to freight fuel price hikes). They know that if War occurs with Iran, that prices will go up steeply in the short term (year or two). They don't want to care about the possibility that prices could go much higher a little later for a much longer duration, if we avoid conflict with Iran for long.

...only a few of the considerations.