The Iranian leaders are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And, like Hitler, they don't think we have the guts to stop them.
They are correct.
Yes, and Sowell is right on the money.
The need for popularity, the need to hand the masses their happy fictions so as to maintain your own exalted and safe position amongst the political elite, aka Chamberlain's overwhelming popularity in 1938, will be the demise of western democracy as a governing concept. And that demise will result in a devastating dark age.