If life was a strategy based video game, where President Bush could set Public Opinion at "Favorable" and Congressional Support at "High", then that might mean something.
He can't. He's got an America public that's already growing tired of war. Congress is halfway ready to mutiny as it is. The military is stretched thin, and Iraq is dangling by a thread. We'd have scant diplomatic support, and the economic backlash from closing the Strait of Hormuz would be staggering.
What threat do you really think he has over Iran? A few weeks of Bosnia-like bombing? What's that going to do, exactly, aside from make the Iranians rally around the flag, and let them turn Iraq into an ungovernable mess? There's no guarentee that bombing will do anything to Iran's nuclear program, without troops on the ground. And there's plenty of evidence that Iran can hit back, in Iraq and in the U.S.
I'm not trying to rain on everyone's parade here, but things aren't as simply as we'd like. We're not on solid footing, and everyone knows it. While I agree that Iran's nuclear program is the greatest threat to American security around, I don't see how President Bush can feasibly do anything about it.
Aside from saying, f*&k it, damn the consequences, damn the lousy odds, I'm going anyway, that is. Is he that guy? I'm not seeing it. Am I wrong?