OILPOCALYPSE NOW

SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT.

The most powerful military on earth. The nation that spent 20 years losing to farmers in sandals in Afghanistan. The country that turned Iraq into an ISIS recruitment poster. That military. Is now going to amphibious-assault a heavily mined, missile-ringed, booby-trapped coral island 20 miles off the Iranian coast.

In the Persian Gulf.

Surrounded by Irani…