The United States is beyond crisis mode when it comes to relations with Iran. Now it is up to U.S. and U.N. dignitaries to delay the inevitable. According to the latest developments, Israel is organizing their plan of attack to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, where Iran is accused of creating warheads. A military confrontation is already brewing between Iranian and American forces. There are many American interests at stake here, especially soldiers’ lives overseas.

War defies any American political party lines. Even the perceived pacifist President Barack Obama is getting comfortable with the idea of taking out the menace that is the Iranian regime. Iran presents a threat to his presidency because they have directly threatened the U.S. by threatening to close off the Strait of Hormuz with a naval blockade, thus choking crucial oil supply to the Western world.

This would send oil prices rocketing faster than the missiles Iran has pointed at Israel. It would play right into the hands of Republicans because it would make Obama the 21st century Jimmy Carter. I think Mr. Obama would much rather opt for war in that instance.

Iran has shown the guile to throw money and weapons towards terrorist organizations like Hamas, who have launched rockets into small Israeli towns, killing countless civilians, especially children, without provocation. If Iran has shown that it is willing to provide advanced weapons to terrorist organizations, who’s to say they won’t share its nuclear arsenal once it is fully developed?

Just as we armed Israel with its nuclear weaponry early on to protect its existence from a “who’s who” list of crazed Middle Eastern dictators, we are now burdened with the same responsibility of backing its military operations against this ruthless regime bent on mass murder.

For us, Iran, much like Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, Venezuela and Panama have all been about our oil. We need what they’ve got, and we want it at the right price. So why be shy about it this time?

Former Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell once said, “Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”

What he said couldn’t be any more applicable than in this case. Our national and international economy are on the brink. We’d be damned if we’d let some religious fanatical despots send our economy to a screeching halt by closing the world’s main trading routes.

Our transportation, our commutes, our food prices, our cost of doing business are all at stake with Iran. They are the “mother lode” of oil in the Middle East, as Dick Cheney so eloquently put it. Iran is the only regime left on the list of dictatorships that freedom-loving democracies loathe. Gaddafi, Milosevic, Stalin, Kim, bin Laden, and Hussein are all dead now. I don’t think I’ll believe that until I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth. That only leaves one piece of scum left standing — Khamenei.

So we, as a nation, are braced with only three courses of action: Let a totalitarian government cut us off from our oil supplies and hold the world hostage with nuclear weapons, become completely self-sufficient with our oil overnight (which is highly impractical), or take back our energy marketplace with our military force. I would opt for the latter, for everyone’s sake… for our children’s sake.