There's no evidence leading us to believe that they will develop nuclear weapons for the next decade or so.

Invade and destroy them before innocent lives are destroyed? Thereby destroying...innocent lives...in the process? What sense does that make?

I mean, you must be unconscious or something...have you learned a thing in the Iraq episode?

I mean, maybe I'm a little rash for saying that...but the amount of ignorant talk about Iran that parallels the talk about Iraq prior to the invasion just amazes me.

I've said it many times and I am saying it now. The best thing we can do is to defuse the situation a bit so that the Iranians wouldn't feel compelled to develop a nuclear arsenal in the first place. It's been proven to work much better than military force. Maybe it's fear of being typecast as anti-semitic, but the policy this administration and many in Washington have taken is completely irrational. Yes, we need to respect the sovereignty of Israel...but this has just gone too far; we deny the potentially aggressive state of Iran to develop nuclear weapons, yet we turn a blind eye when an actively aggressive state of Israel develops a nuclear arsenal.

If Iran truly is developing nuclear weapons, really the only main reason would to be to keep up with Israel...a state that they perceive as a direct threat against them. You look throughout history, at arms races, each time one side ponies up the arms, the other side tries to compensate. The answer isn't to let Iran develop them, and the answer isn't to militarily force them into submission. The answer is to put the same amount of pressure on Israel to stop their aggression and stop their nuclear program. If we did that I am sure Iran would be more willing to make their programs much more internationally transparent.

Oh, but the Republicans can't do that because they will be perceived as 'weak', and the Democrats can't do that because they don't want to upset their Jewish constituency. Because God forbid if either one of those happens if we can solve the situation.