[ChinaThreat]

Yeah great idea. The resulting radiation should make the largest oil deposits in the world unreachable for at least 10,000 years. That shouldn’t have any affect on our economy. The trade winds that blow the large amount of radioactive fallout in a wide band across the earth shouldn’t pose too many problems. /sarcasm - i assume you were kidding right?

[Species8472]

Where do you get the 10,000 year envirowacko stuff? We nuked the japs 62 years ago and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving communities; the second and seventh largest cities in Japan today!

The desert makes it easy to scrape off a layer of radioactive sand, we should be back pumping in short order!

[Wuli]

Yea, like a sane person would really want to see 1/3 of the world blow itself-up in a nuclear-armed pissing contest between two groups of the same religion? /sarc

Now, the real point is that the United States should not be so sure it has a real long-term stake in being best buds with either the Saudis or Iran, under their present rulers, because I do not believe it does.

Neither state is now our “best bud” (at all or in any true sense) and until both the Iranian Mullahs and the Saudi Royals are removed by real moderate forces, neither one will ever be a true friend or ally of ours - no matter how much we try to act like a friend of theirs.