Sure thing Iran doensn't pose a direct threat. Except that it's cronies, proxies and other connected TERRORISTS do.
It's isolationist idiots like that who would LOVE for the US to get hit in the hopes that the US would go into a shell ala mid-1930s US.
Maybe that's why Pat is so pissed. I'm sure the day of 911, he had a wet dream about his role in moving the US into isolationism and building a business around the creation of cloth Stars of David.