[A. Pole]

Maybe I'm misreading this, but I don't think anybody is considering invading Iran.

Yes, you are "misreading this", just read some posts on this and other threads.

[katana]

By "anybody" I wasn't referring to the posters' comments (there are people who post at this site who say they'd like us to "nuke" just about everybody) but to what I read to be the strategic plan of the folks in charge.

I agree that invading Iran would not only be far too expensive in blood and money, but stupid as well. For geographic reasons if for no other, the most natural alliance in the Middle East region (other than the USA and Israel and you'll find plenty who'd disagree with that as well) would be one between the United States and a Free Iran. A lot of (maybe a majority) of Iranians know this.