this is the first time I have ever discuused oil/market/politics on a thread that was not the extreme of a food fight or so small that everyone agreed with each other.
In the more civilized disscussion on this thread I begin to see one of the reasons for people assuming we attack Iran. Simply "the trend is your friend until it ends ideology". In my life time the Israel/U.S. coalition has always had the lions share of the "winnings". I can understand that people might be reluctant to bet against a trend that long.
On the longer time frame Iraq was a Gambit pawn given to the U.S. by the Irano/CHino/Russo gang. It has worked very well.
I know Russia sold some state of the art missiles to Syria. Interestingly enough and certainly a sign of the times Putins historic first Russian diplomatic visit to Israel was a few weeks later. Times are changing and Israel knows it?
I cant remember which missiles Russia sold Syria at that time. Does anyone know if it was the missiles Scott Ritter talks about in this post?