The Iranians have been begging to be nuked since November, 1979. I say grant them their wish.
Yup, we’ve ignored Iran for too long. Like ignoring a lump under the armpit that turns out to be cancer.
Bringing them to heel even ten years ago might have been cheap. Now the price will be high indeed.
Non-proliferation would work a whole lot better of the dictators developing the technology had a tendency to disappear in a cloud of radioactive dust.
This sort of approach would probably have had to be applied only a couple times before people got the message -- and the result would have been a late 20th century world with a single nuclear power. Things would have been better.
And I say the opportunity is not yet totally lost. Iran should be used as an object lesson -- it's too big to invade. We cannot hope to win a ground war there. So: let's nuke it.