I wish that we would take this opportunity to take out Iran's mad leadership, we are going to have to do it sooner or later- why not now?
These Iranians will not stop until they have a nuclear bomb that they can use to blow up Israel and threaten anyone trying to stop them from establishing an Islamic "utopia". It is up to the USA to make sure that doesn't happen. No one else has the guts. They only understand strong physical responses.
Let's quit pussyfooting around these bullies and give them a bloody nose and multiple limb amputations.
I'm afraid the USA doesn't have the guts either. Perhaps you missed the Senate surrender vote yesterday? This is only the first of a series of hostage taking and other terrorist events that we will see over the next few months and years. Losing wars has consequences as we saw in the post-Vietnam era. Yes, Bush will veto cut and run but the Congressional vote of "we give up" has not gone unnoticed nor has the proposed vote that would limit Bush's ability to take any substantive action against Iran. The Democrats have indeed shown us to be paper tigers.
You've hit on why, back in the bad old days when things didn't have to be counterintuitive to be true, you HAD to go to war over an incident like this. Because if you didn't, every tin-pan dictator, pirate, and thug would know you could be pushed around and intimidated.