Joe---yes, those would be the human wave assaults that Saddam's troops broke up with nerve gas artillery shells---oops, no, that can't be because we know Bushitler lied about the WMDs. Those hundreds of thousands of dead Iranian soldiers are just playing possum. You can get up now, guys.
Seriously, a non violent solution is devoutly to be wished for, but I despair. We've got an Iranian despot who is either batsh!t crazy or doing a great imitation of Hitler---the MSM have been trying to soft pedal his ravings, but he's been pretty explicit about what he's going to do to the Jews--in Israel and elsewhere--and the Brits, as the mother of evil---that would be us. This guy simply can't be allowed to get an operational deliverable nuke. And we can't ignore him and hope he's just kidding. Doesn't this all have a kind of 1938 feel about it?
And the fact that he's a religious fanatic looking forward to an apocalypse means he won't respond to events the way a rational western (even Communist) leader would. He may very well feel that a nuclear armaggedon with Israel and the Great Satan is a good thing---the ultimate jihad.
No happy ending in sight here.
