“NO BLOOD FOR OIL!” is the mantra of a small but extremely vocal segment of America for whom Iraq is a metaphor for perceived American adventurism (what the communists and sixties leftists called “imperialism”).

What their pointy little heads can’t seem to grasp is that there is a vast gulf of difference between taking military action to defend the nation after all other options have been exhausted (as in the case of Iraq) and actual adventurism.

Take Hillary Clinton’s vow to incinerate 70 million innocent Iranians to keep our hold on Middle Eastern oil supplies for example.

In a stunning display of machismo, the Democrat candidate has repeatedly vowed in recent weeks to “obliterate” Iran should that nation attack a whole laundry list of nations in the Middle East. Israel is on the list, but that is a politically-correct bone thrown by a woman who kissed former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and whose husband did all he could to apply diplomatic pressure on Israel to commit national suicide.

While the United States spent more than a decade playing every card in the deck short of war to deal with Saddam, we were finally left with war as the only remaining choice in 2003. In President Hillary Clinton’s world, war is the first option.

Nevermind those 70 million Iranians, many of whom are powerless to change the actions of their leaders, and that the mad mullahs would likely be on the lam ahead of the incoming, leaving the women and children to be incinerated by Hillary’s missiles.

What’s more is that she has now repeatedly said that she would commit this act of wanton genocide not just if Iran attacks the United States or Israel, but also Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia (it is only coincidence that those three countries wrote multi-million dollar checks to the William Jefferson Clinton Library). She also promises to add any other nation in the world that foregoes developing their own nuclear programs in response to adversaries’ programs.

Commander-in-chief-wannabe Hillary has painted herself into a corner, leaving her only one option in a formerly nuanced Middle Eastern foreign policy: Showdown with Iran. Her plan would exterminate them; the penalty for which we would suffer is too terrible to contemplate.

Mrs. Clinton has already signaled that her presidency would be marked by nuclear war and an end to American supremacy—perhaps even independence.