A little perspective goes a long way.

Boy, it's a little eerie to listen to the words foaming out of Iranian despot/whack-job  Mahmoud Imadinnerjacket's mouth lately.  In response to U.S. condemnation of his post election crackdown he said "You should know that if you continue, the response of the Iranian nation will be strong. The response of the Iranian nation will be crushing.  The response will cause remorse."  Man, did this guy get his public speaking technique from Saddam Hussein's 'The big book of Inflammatory Rhetoric'?  Maybe he should also have spent a little time in Saddam's other book "Poking the Big Dog - Things I regret and other stories from the gallows'.  Iran is not that far from Iraq.  Surely they saw some of the smoke drifting off in the distance during those days.  Maybe heard the occasional crump of artillery?  Spotted the odd laser-guided warhead streaking overhead, carrying it's load of death and destruction?  Wouldn't his time be much better spent thanking Allah that a man of intelligence, patience and vision is now in the White house instead of trigger-happy hawk who would happily bomb he and his country back into the stone age given the least provocation?  Perspective is everything isn't it.