Tonkin Persian Gulf Resolution

One time-honored response to difficult economic times, especially popular among nations with a propensity for violence, is a war of choice. Broad emergency powers, unlimited deficit spending, semi-mandatory contributions from allied countries, what's not to like? H. Con. Res 362 demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran’s nuclear program.... While what is clearly a war resolution is widely discussed in alternative news sources, a web-search shows the MSM has nothing, repeat nothing about this. No doubt the fact that this Iran War resolution is AIPAC-driven and the fact that the MSM makes no mention of it are purely coincidental. When the US stopped oil exports to Japan in 1941, war with Japan became inevitable (no doubt Roosevelt took this into account, as he needed a casus belli). Attempting to inspect things entering and leaving Iran is an unmistakable act of war. Prohibiting the movement of Iranian officials almost certainly is also. The goal would be to start another non-declared war and get Iran to fire the first actual shot (or failing that just blow up some tall buildings or whatnot and say they did it). While this could be sold as just what the country needs in difficult economic times, it would be in fact yet another breathtaking act of treason, of elected officials acting on behalf of a foreign power in whose pay they are to the great detriment of the US. Treason, pure and simple, no other word for it. While there might be a short term (1 to six months maybe?) dead-cat bounce, the outcome would be to rapidly accelerate the demise of the US as a world power (the Iraq war having already done quite a bit in that direction). While there is already speculation about the possibility of a US default, starting another war of any substance would make it a certainty: it would be apparent to foreign creditors such as China that the US debt could never actually be repaid except by hyperinflation of the dollar. It is also my opinion that Russia and/or China have signaled they might respond militarily to a US incursion into Iran (a little bombing here and there being all well and good among friends).