I agree that Bush is not Kerry and Kerry may not have had the nerve to go to war in Iraq. But Bush is still a politician and I would be really surprised to see any military response to Iran before Nov. I may be in for a surprise but the polls show the race is still too close to call an early victory.
Why are we automatically assuming that there is any need for a "military response" at all? Based on what I've read about this incident, it appears that these British sailors were captured in Iranian waters. I would hope the U.S. Navy would have done the same thing back in the 1970s if some Soviet trawler were laying marine detection equipment across the mouth of New York harbor.