Whatcha Gonna Do?

Iran. Now there's a real question for ya. Whatta ya do about Iran? We've got a limited number of responses. We can keep trying to pressure them into not developing the bomb, we can bomb their nuclear facilities or we can live with them having the bomb. That's about it. Those are all the choices we're gonna have. We're working on pressure and it looks like it could be working. At least in the minds of those who want it to work. As for the Hawks, they disagree. Small wonder. So what happens if we bomb them? Think they'd mine the Strait of Hormuz and sink a tanker or two to help block it? Even the thought of that happening would send oil prices through the roof. And that would sink our economy and just about every other economy in the world, to the bottom of the pit. And there would be no guarantee that Iran would stop trying to build a bomb. In fact they'd probably try harder. So if we bomb them and that isn't enought to stop them and to keep them from shutting the Strait of Hormuz, what? Do we invade them? Are we up for another occupation of a middle-eastern country? So what's left? Allow them to build their bomb? And then what? Hope they don't decide to use it? Or sell it? See what I mean? There's no good solution. But the least bad solution would be to sanction them into deciding not to build the bomb. It's a gamble, but then which plan isn't? My guess is that no matter what we do, we're gonna have a problem with them, just like we've been having since the 1960s. They've been a thorn in our side all this time and nobody's figured out how to stop them. Getting out of dependence on middle-eastern oil would help. But only if everybody else did too. So, as long as oil has a world dominance for transportation energy, Iran will continue to be a world player in the problem game.