What will be the consequences of starting a war with Iran?

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Price of oil will skyrocket. Iran can take out US supply lines of Afghanistan and Iraq very easily and also trap any ship around persian gulf. Things will go beserk
 
I think this needs to be put into context. Following 9/11, the Bush administration adopted the neoconservative plan to overthrow regimes that were threatening Israel and US interests. This did not work, especially in the case of Iraq. Iran seemed to have gained influence within Iraq. There was fighting between Sunni and Shia and Kurdish wanted to develop their own state. The Iraq war was expensive and a mess.

Once Obama was elected, this plan to overthrow these regimes was put side. Obama's foreign policy adviser Brzenki was far more concerned with Russia and China. Both Russia and China are more powerful and are a significant threat to the US. Brzenski is aware that a war with Russia and China is not practicable. So he advocates bringing Russia and China into some sort of conflict, probably over resources. This is why Obama attacked Pakistan which George Bush, John McCain and Hillary Clinton were against. Pakistan and China are allies and to weaken Pakistan will limit China's strategic position.

I heard that China relies on Sudan for its resources. If the US is able to prevent Sudan allowing China to gain its resources, China will have to rely on Siberia to gain its resources. This will bring Russia and China into some sort of conflict.

Not sure if this is true, but speculation.
 
Read this

For Blumenthal, the alliance between the US right-wing and Jewish extremists is forged on a theological convergence.

"Christians who are sympathetic to the JDL mentality are Christian-Zionists", he explained. "They are waiting for 'the Rapture', and part of the fulfillment is the gathering of all Jews into Biblical Israel, which means the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians."

Ironically, part of the Rapture mythology is that all non-Christians will perish on that day, including Jews.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/12/2011121391638252910.html
 
Those rapture folk are something...
And that's all I'm gonna say about that.
 

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