Musings on the world politic

Just what is going on in the world? Why is everyone afraid of Iran? What were those crazy Brit sailors and marines doing? "Well, thank you, kind sirs, for arresting us, stealing all our stuff, making us confess to things we didn't do. Thank you for making us look like total plonkers to the world. No, it was only in the old days when service personnel didn't co-operate with the enemy just to get home sooner. Now in this modern world we cave in as soon as you put us in solitary in a dark room. Just dictate what you want me to sign, put me in front of the TV cameras and I'll say anything you tell me, just get me home to my mummy and favorite slippers by the fire."
Sorry to sound cynical, but unless these Brits were brainwashed and turned into zombies, that's what seems to have happened. Everyone knows, especially Iran, that even the USA doesn't have the manpower, political will, or public support, to fight a second war, when they can't even get a handle on the first one. The Brits armed forces are so pitifully small they couldn't even fight anything bigger than the Falklands, let alone a determined enemy not afraid of dying.
Also, while I'm at it, what is happening to Iraqi oil? Why doesn't the USA say, "Drill all the oil you want, we'll buy it and keep it as a reserve." Why are we still slaves to Saudi Arabia? Why doesn't someone get moving on building alternative fuel or power for automobiles?
Why don't the USA, or Israel just bomb Iran's reactor and get it over with? I suspect that they're scared of a Muslim jihad on the west, which they probably couldn't stop. The Muslim extremists don't care, they'll take over the West, probably well before the end of this century, by high birth rate and proselytizing, while the western European governments fall over themselves to suck up to them. Also, the Christian religion is rapidly being seen as weak and insipid, and can't attract many men. Islam, by contrast, is very much a man's religion and that's its great strength. Watch out the West, Europe first, and don't say I didn't warn you.