Every six months or so, we get a spate of stories about plans to attack Iran. Even back in the Clinton administration the Pentagon was wargaming out conflict with Iran. I'm hoping that is what is going on here.

That said, and speaking as a moderate/conservative Republican, depending on my indigestion at the time, any attack on Iran is stupid beyond belief at this time. The time to stop the Iranian nuclear program with a couple of air strikes passed us by several years ago. Now, the program is so large and dispersed that any attack would ultimately fail in its objective. All we would do is enrage the Iranian public and unify them behind the Mullahs.

Any military action to effectively stop the Iranian from getting the bomb would have to be so widespread that it would constitute an invasion of Iran with a long-term occupation afterwards. I think two counter-insurgencies in the Middle East is enough of us right now.

I say this as someone who is on record against the Iranian Mullah regime, but as much we could get a thrill out of bombing the bad guys in this situation, it would be counter productive.

There are better ways to accomplish our objective. The Iranian economy is very vulnerable to economic sanctions. Remember it was in Iran where there were riots at gas stations over petrol rationing, not the United States. The Iranian economy is weak once you get past those oil resources. Any economy that is dependent on one resource as its many strength is one that is vulnerable to outside sanctions.

In this case Churchill said it perfectly "Better jaw jaw, than war war."