Any stoppage of middle east oil would harm the US economy, you cannot be that stupid. A major trading partner, Japan, would be crushed....but you don't seem to think beyond your nose.
Yeah, being nuked is a better option.
Or paying out the nose for oil is another good outcome. Our economy would implode if Iran could shut off the middle east oil.....but you really thought that out, eh?
How about $15 a gallon for gas? Jimmy Carter would be proud.
You sound like people in the 1930s...."That is the problem for Europe and Asia."
Do you know how little of our oil comes from the middle east? What would likely happen is it would show the need to get to use the resources we have right under our feet here in the U.S. We may even start exporting it to the countries that are more dependent on the middle east.
If Japan is so much more dependent on mid-east stability perhaps Japan should decide whether it wants to involve itslef in the region rather than letting us do it for them. It's you who has no forsight. It's you who can't see past what would likely happen past your doomsday prophecies.