I cannot believe that any thinking person isn't scared sh!tless over what Iran has done recently.
Does anyone believe that they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon?  Now that they have shown the world that they have a missile capable of putting a monkey in space, it's obvious that they either have, or are very close to having, a delivery vehicle.
So, what does the civilized world do about this rogue state?  Do we continue to talk, and pretend that they aren't a real threat to humanity, like Chamberlain did with Hitler prior to WW II?
Or, do we organize the civilized countries at risk - U.S., France, Great Britain, Israel, Turkey and others, and just level the place in a premptory strike, or wait till they kill thousands, or hundreds of thousands, and then have a much more costly war with them?

Star -

While it may be Israel's direct problem, the politics and international relations implications are immense if Iran were to attack Israel.  It's kind of like saying that Hitler was Poland's problem in 1939.  That's were Hitler struck first, but certainly they weren't the end of the story.
Rogue states have to be dealt with eventually.  And putting it off only worsens the eventual outcome for everyone.

To me, it's like ignoring a cancer in its earliest stages - a simple operation  now to cut out the tumor, or let it grow until it becomes a fatal illness.

If GWB hadn't of bombed Iraq,Iraq would have taken care of Iran.If Russia couldn't beat Afghanistan,Why did GWB thing he could.

I'm more scared of N. Korea

Jerry why doesn't Russia have a problem with Iran and North Korea.

Lets blow up our neigbors house because we think he might try to hurt the people down the street. The rumor is he has WMD. By the way old people we cant afford your Social Security checks this month. Its costing a lot more to rebuild Iraq than thingy Cheyneys quote. WE cant rebuild the bridge that fell last month because Paul Ryan wants to give the wealthy a tax cut to stimulate the economy. Its gonna cost a lot of money to build the bomb so lets lay off some school teachers. That crack in the dam will hold a couple more years while we build some more drones.

Midnightrider wrote on 01/28/13 at 15:55:34:

So you would not call the police about the rock house at the end of the street?

Why don't we put some anti-missle batteries in and around the gulf states, and let Iraq know the next missle they fire as a test we will react like its aimed at us- shoot it down and then nuke the area ( mountain) they are doing the work in; although frankly nuking the entirety of the middle east from the Anatolian border around to the Pakistan/Indian Border might be a better option.  If no one likes that, lets move the UN headquarters from NY City to Jerusalem so all the interested parties can be one  with that place.  Then the UN might get motivated to do its job.