The sad fact is that Obama doesn't mind if Iran gets nuclear weapons. He feels that America and the West are being imperialist and neocolonial again by trying to tell other countries who can and can't develop nuclear weapons. Obama probably believes that by having nuclear weapons, Iran won't be pushed around by the West in the future. Perhaps he even views nukes as a form of "reparations" for all the years of bad treatment he believes Iran has suffered at the hands of the West. In that light, Obama's behavior makes perfect sense. He certainly would not take military...