We swallowed the talking points whole before Iraq and that same administration is now serving Iranian flavored kool aid and we are all lining up for a swig.
We cannot at once condemn Iran for being a theocracy and then disregard the rulings of its theocrats. Though with an aggressive nuclear Israel and U.S regularly rattling their sabers who could blame Iran even if it did seek the security nuclear weapons seem to provide? Hillary Clinton recently threatened to "totally obliterate" Iran while John McCain sings about bombing Iran and president Bush called al Qaeda and Iran two of the greatest threats to America in the 21st century. This is slightly hyperbolic since al Qaeda's only successful attack against the U.S. on September 11 ago was a strategic pinprick, not to mention a lucky shot, and Iran has no global ambitions and no interest in attacking the U.S. and in fact has never invaded another country (Iraq started the Iran-Iraq war). [Source]
As wrong as a US attack on Iran would be, using this time to build American support (and international support too) for an Israeli attack is worse.
Washington and Tehran are feeding off of each other and both stand to gain politically in one way or another if the other were to make a move and justify aggression. Those who stand to lose the most and who also happen to be the ones best positioned to stop the madness are the people. If only the people of these two countries at all mattered to the ruling regimes.
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