This is what I keep telling my dad. I thought 9-11 was the threshold, but apparently not. It will take major destruction of a US city caused by a nuclear bomb.
When the financial impact is so great that your average American cannot eat at Applebees every Saturday night for a prolonged period of time then you will see a fight.
As long as we are comfortable and can continue winter vacations at Disneyworld, then we will live in Fantasyland.
I was talking to a friend of mine who is middle level at The Pentagon the other day. He says this is now the thinking. America will not wake up and support the kind of action that must occur, everything form assassinations to scorched earth, until after Saudi Arabia falls and Iran nucs Israel. This is when gas will cost $30 a gallon because we did not drill in ANWAR etc.