re: Go on the record. Retaliate vs. Iran or not.

What if the bad actors in critical regions at various spots throughout the world were to take advantage of a sudden void of American influence and “mitigation” practices, ultimately resulting in a chaos in the international energy markets thus negatively impacting our efforts and ability to achieve energy independence??

**I’m not being a proponent of one thing or another here in this instance, my point just being that it’s likely a much more complex situation than immediately comes to the mind of Joe Q Public, and there are infinitely more implications than first glance.