The threat of war in the Persian Gulf with Iran has raised the price of gas...
10¢.
One thin dime.
Thanksgiving's travel demand increase did more to the prices than Iran threatening war does.
I don't remember where I read it, "Once our foreign policy hinged on being able to keep the Straits of Hormuz open; now we only have to be able to keep them closed."
I also have to say that after reading about only 11 of 15 missiles even hitting the zip code of an American base and killing only Iraqis... Iran's mullahs saying they will stop retaliating if we stop retaliating sounds impotent as fuck.
I'm not too worried about war with Iran, we've been at war with them (rather they've been at war with us) since November 4, 1979.
We spanked them decently for Operation Preying Mantis and that was with ordinance that had an alarming tendency to drop off the aircraft and act like a rock.
Their capability to reply has not substantially improved in the past 32 years.
Sure, they can resort to terrorism, but they can ask Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein how that worked out for them once we got moved to do something about their bullshit.
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This is going to be an interesting period of Shits-krieg (a nod to the Sits-krieg after Poland but before France) consisting of them lobbing stuff sorta towards us and us doing precision retaliation. Eventually they'll run out of moving targets and we'll get to the breaking-stuff period of retribution which they won't like.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, as you said, gas prices... Meh.