“I have to do what’s right. You know, political, I’m sure, everybody has concerns. I have to do what’s right. I can’t say that, you know, gee, I don’t want to have any impact on oil prices for three or four weeks or two months and we’re going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon and blow up the entire Middle East and beyond, right?”
That was President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on March 15 responding to a reporter’s question “Do you have any concerns about the political impacts of this?” referring to high oil prices, which clocked in at $95 a barrel as of this writing with the Strait of Hormuz still effectively closed.
And polls that show the American people on the margins opposed to military intervention in Iran. For example, a recent Quinnipiac poll taken March 6 to March 8, that found voters opposed the war 53 percent to 40 percent.
