There is certainly no shortage of things going on the world, so we interrupt our relentless scathing criticism of Barack Obama and his Democratic Party (with a helping for Republicans) to bring you commentary on one of the more likely crises that may erupt over the course of the next four years:  Iranian nuclear weapons ambitions.

Surfing the various news sites we visit daily - namely Yahoo News, Google News, Foxnews, CNN, and our favorite of the bunch - Drudge, we spotted this little gem on the Drudge website today from the Wall Street Journal.

According to the article, the Iranians are hard at work at circumventing bans and embargoes blocking Iran from acquiring the raw materials to feed their nuclear and ballistic missile program.  Does this sound vaguely familiar?  It should, and that's part of the problem.

We touched on a couple topics in recent previous posts - a troubling growing trend of blindly accepting perception rather than reality, and President George Bushs' disastrous marketing campaign to justify war with Iraq.  All indicators point directly to Iran feverishly working on developing nuclear weapons - like a compass points to a magnet at close range.   Iran has pledged to annihilate Israel, and has no great love for it's Arab neighbors - especially Sunni Arabs for which Shiite's harbor a blood grudge dating back to the original Sunni/Shiite divide.  Iran dreams of the Empire of old when Persia ruled much of the  then "civilized" world in ancient days.   A nuclear  Iran,  pledged to the destruction of Israel, generally hostile to  the Sunni Arab world would alter the balance of power in the middle east, a make nuclear war between Israel and Iran all but certain.

The Iranians, of course, have been continuously denying the accusations regarding their nuke weapons program, and generally the international community has been willing to go along with the farce.  But now, as the Wall Street Journal reports, it is getting harder and harder to buy the perception, in place of the reality. 

Which brings us to the convergence of hard to deny evidence suggesting a very active nuke program (with a little loving help from the Chinese) and President Bushs' rationalization for attacking Iraq:    How would President Obama, or the (western) international community, retread the rationalization to go to war against Iran based largely on intelligence reports and circumstantial evidence - however compelling or strong?  The exact same rationalization strategy advanced by President Bush.

Ironic isn't it?

Here is what we think:  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  Take out Iran's nuke program now - what we know of it - or watch the middle east erupt in horror and death on a scale not seen since World War II.   Fear of the unknown, wariness of the law of intended consequences, and acceptance of a ludicrous perception rather than hard reality may paralyze us until Iran makes the decision for us.  By then, the cure will be more than a pound, and cost many more American lives than the Iraq war did. 

Danger and peril at every turn.......but we believe that the United States, properly led, can overcome these challenges.