[Finalmente]

If Israel attacks Iran all hell will break loose, world markets will collapse and the United States will morph from our current contained depression into a real and protracted depression. Iran is not Iraq.

[elcid1970]

Please, tell us more.

[apoliticalone]

“If Israel attacks Iran all hell will break loose, world markets will collapse and the United States will morph from our current contained depression into a real and protracted depression. Iran is not Iraq.”

I believe what you say to be true. There will be enormous cost that could bring down our dollar.

Also if Israel ever attacks, it is they who need to bear the full costs in their lives of their youth and in their standard of living, and leave the USA out of it. We’ve already frittered away about 5 trillion too much, and way too many young lives on the worthless ME and that so-called Cheney cake walk.

I have yet to see an entangling alliances that is in our benefit.

[steve86]

world markets will collapse

Good, I'll try to short them.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

If Israel attacks Iran all hell will break loose, world markets will collapse and the United States will morph from our current contained depression into a real and protracted depression.

Well, this would almost certainly be the case on the actual day of the attack; and for several days thereafter.

But what makes you suppose that it would be a protracted conflict, thereby leading (inevitably) to a protracted market correction--either in the US or worldwide?