[Colonel Kangaroo]

While iran is certainly more developed than many Third World nations, they are way behind the US and directly relevant to the situation, they are way behind Israel.

[RockinRight]

The sad thing is, I’ve met a fair number of Iranian immigrants (most US citizens). IME, they tend to be only nominally Muslim, very Westernized, and fond of America. They’re probably the most “normal” of anyone from the Muslim Middle East (I emphasise Muslim as Christian Lebanese and of course Israelis wouldn’t fall in the same category) and culturally seem to fit in the US rather well.

Their government is crazy, and there are just enough wackos in the country to keep the Islamists in power, but in raw numbers, there are still a LOT of Iranian people who I’d much rather have over for dinner than, say, the average Saudi.

[KevinDavis]

This is the same type of attitude we had before WWII. We never thought that Japan will never hit us. Well they did.

Never never underestimate the bad guys......