“It certainly won't make fuel cheaper!” Possibly the real reasoning behind it? Many wealthy people/companies/nations in this world stand to benefit from high oil prices, including a certain Mr Putin. The US seems to constantly desire instability in the Middle East. Prices go up, and Europe is swarmed by illegal immigrants from the region. We should keep our noses out of it.

Somehow waiting until Iran has a nuke is not exactly the best course of action.

The IAEA (not a discredited organisation, quite unusual in the modern world) has already said that Iran had a lot of Uranium at well beyond (60% enriched as of May and far more than just from Feb) the 20% needed for 'civilian' use, so what's it for then other than military use?

This is especially important, given their leaders have clearly stated for the best part of half a century they want Israel 'wiped off the map' (and no, they don't just mean leaving all the people intact and changing a piece of paper) and 'death to America', I suspect their hand was forced by Iran not playing ball and lying about their nuclear programme.

Even if the neocons and others (including some rich investors in 'green' tech) goading the US to go to war have been doing so, unless there was actual evidence to show the Iranians were indeed close to building a viable nuke, I don't think the US would have bombed them.

It emerged yesterday that Trump previously (in his first term) turned back the bombers mid-flight because he was not certain, and so this latest (quite restrained compared to what others wanted) action must've happened because he was.

Despite what some may tell you, he isn't a warmonger like many of his predecessors, plus he has stated on many occasions he wants the price of oil to drop precisely because it benefits American producers over those from the Middle East and Russia, where their regimes are propped up by oil money.

I don't want war as much as the next person, but sometimes directed military action is necessary.