When oil prices rise, Americans tend to notice it in one very obvious place: the gas pump. You don’t need an economics degree to understand what’s happening. You just drive past the giant glowing sign outside a gas station and watch the numbers creep upward. Unlike most prices in the economy, gasoline is advertised in big digits visible from half a mile away. When it goes up, people see it immediately. But the impact of rising oil prices goes far beyond the price of gasoline.

If someone told you in June that the threat was “completely destroyed”… that the danger was eliminated… that everything was handled… …and then six months later told you, “We had no choice. We had to strike. It was unavoidable”… You’d probably raise an eyebrow. Not because you’re rooting for Iran. But because basic logic still applies. Either the threat was destroyed — or it wasn’t. And if it was destroyed, what are we bombing now? If it wasn’t destroyed, what were we told? Th