I'll bet that we're going to strike Iran, and hard. Why? First, the Iranian leadership, like the Germans twice and the Japanese once, have utterly failed to understand us. Generally, the US is an amiable country. We haven't been particularly bellicose toward others in an offensive way since about 1898 (too bad for the Spanish), so we appear soft. Also, as the Japanese reminded us after the end of WW2, we're prone to bouts of near suicidal pacifism on occasion (then it was the re-authorization of the draft in 1940 by only 1 vote). So, we appear weak and unwilling to fight - the key word there being "appear."
Second, there's steel underneath all that weak-looking flab on the surface. This is, after all, the same country that within living memory mobilized over 40% of its GNP for a war against 2 modern and powerful empires, and which had armed forces amounting to nearly 10% of its population. That's when we felt threatened - and that's what Iran is doing now.
If Iran keeps it up, then they'll get to see what we're like when we're pissed off. I would, however, like to offer Iran some advice: ask some old Germans and Japanese what its like to eff with the US of A.
Hear, hear.
Time to dust off an old vanity and two chestnuts.
1. Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said, "There are only two rules of war. 1. Never invade Russia. 2. Never invade China." He forgot 3. : Don't F*** with the U.S. Air Force.
2. The United States remains the only country that deliberately used nukes on civilian population centers. Twice. Iran should remember that they are rank amateurs.