This is the perfect controlled experiment.

We have Iraq as the example, good and bad, for what happens if you take military action.

Now we have another nation with a crazy leader, this one pursuing WMD right out in the open and daring anyone to stop them, threatening nations around it, and almost literally spitting in the eye of every international organization trying to deal with it.

This is interesting, although I don't put enough weight on the source to be really alarmed by it. Watch this space.

So, let's try the Way of Enlightenment.

Do exactly with Iran what President Gore, or Kerry would be doing.

Nothing. Oh, make speeches, annoy the U.N., call for sanctions, the usual useless expenditures of energy. But, basically, nothing.

And wait.

It's pretty much what Bush is doing right now, too, despite all the Hersh Hallucinations.

Let's see how it works.