Our economy will survive oil crisis

Could it be that the real reason for our third highest State Department official's visit to meet with Iranian officials is really an 11th-hour threat to bomb their nuclear development sites?

By either us or Israel or both?

We definitely will not commit ground troops to any Iranian conflict arising from this as it would not be necessary. Because air power is all that will be needed to kill their program.

And $10-a-gallon gas because of Iranian actions in the straits of Hormuz and cutoff of flow of their oil will not bring permanent harm to the U.S. economy.

Why? Because with all the concerns of the housing bubble burst and $150 a barrel, the threat of resuming offshore drilling, ANWR drilling and oil shale mining has stimulated our IRA portfolios by at least 20 percent in the last week.

I won't mind another 20 percent or more hit if we bomb Iran's nuclear facilities because I know our economy is resilient enough to come back and then some.

It did after the Internet bubble; it did after 9/11; it's returning after the housing bubble; and it will survive the energy "crisis."

I'm looking at the US as a half-full glass, not half empty. This is America!

Dave Souders

Arlington Heights