"Will Obama Declare War on Iran because of Attempted Assassination of Saudi Ambassador??!!"

Time Magazine headline above: what idiots.  First of all, the plan was dumb, a used car salesman attempting to hire someone from the Zeta Mexican cartel for $1.5 million to kill the Saudi Ambassador...there is more money in drugs for the Zetas than killing an ambassador, and subsequently pissing off the US and resulting in a war again the Zetas.  I mean, the Zetas make billions each year running drugs to the US, why fu*k with that?  for $1.5 million?  Thats like Dr. Evil wanting $1 million dollars in ransom money.

Second, its not clear if the "government of Iran" even knew about this plot.  First, the government is fractured, with religious leaders and gov leaders not being open with each other, the Iranians dont know what is happening to their right hand and left hand.  Second, if Iran really wanted to kill the Saudi ambassador, then why not pick a an easier Ambassador?  There are easier hits on the saudi's than the us ambassador.

And why would Iran want to kill a member of the saudi royal family?  Maybe because of Saudi Arabia's role in putting down a popular rebellion in Yemen?  A Shia muslim country?  Saudi Arabia is Sunni muslim, and has provided military support to yemen to put down a popular uprising by Shiites against the minority run Sunni Yemen government.

So does this have anything to do with the US?  No.  Other than oil.  Saudi Arabia is our Oil bitch, or, the US is Saudi Arabia's oil bitch - take your pick.  So the Saudi's support repression against Shiites in Yemen, Iran counters by trying to kill a member of the Saudi royal family (who happens to be the Ambassador to the USA living in DC) and that means the USA has to declare war on Iran!!!!?????  Way to go Time Magazine!  What insightful coverage.  What ever happened to investigative journalism?

The US sees the dictatorship of the Saudi royal family as the stabilizing factor in the middle east, an assurance that the US will always have access to oil, and this means we are stuck with the Saudi's, even when they piss off millions of other Arabs who hate the Saudi royal family.  And the US will go to war over this?

I mean, Iran has oil too.  Why dont we just switch sides and become Iran's bitch?  I mean, its all about oil, isnt it?  Who cares where it comes from?

My vote: tell the middle east to go to hell.  Have the US become energy independent.  Its possible.  Every house in the US can be energy self sufficient, we have the technology now, and its not rocket science (or "rock science" as Paris Hilton says).  The problem?  Powerful, wealthy interest groups that want the energy dependence of the US on the middle east to continue, for additional windfall profits for the stock holders and politicians who are their bitches.  Like the Bushs, the Cheneys, like all members of the US Congress, and even.....yes even.....the Obama administration.