Don S., We can most certainly agree on the fact that neither Iran nor Israel will back down and if the rhetoric on both sides escalates there is the possibility of war. To expand on my above post though, I just believe that Ahmadinejad's rhetoric against Israel is all fluff, he knows it, The Iranian Government knows it and the Iranian people know it. Ahmadinejad is full of shit and he is doing what he is doing because (similar to President George Bush Jr. in my opinion but that is another matter altogether) he is a mentally disturbed individual. However I will say again if Iran even thinks for a second of attacking Israel, the United States would invade Iran within a week, we would see regime change in Iran and the push to make Iran a Western style liberal democracy will be underway. If the U.S. attacks Iran it would most probably ultimately prevail due to many reasons, but it would be much harder to subdue Iran than Iraq or Afghanistan (not that it has been easy bringing peace and democracy to either or these countries) for many reasons. Although Afghanis are a very proud and fierce people their population is about 30 million or so and although Iraqis are also a very proud and strong people their population is about 27 million or so. Iranians are just as proud, fierce and strong as Afghanis and Iraqis but the population of Iran is close to 70 million and naturally the Iranian armed forces are much larger than those of Afghanistan or Iraq ever were. My two cents: the U.S. should finish the job in Afghanistan and Iraq and trust that the Iranians are a young, intelligent people who are thirsty for the drink of freedom, justice, democracy, respect and peace. The "Islamic Republic of Iran" has lasted what, 26 years or so now, I don't believe it will last another 26 years and eventually it will be overthrown either by Iranians themselves or by an outside power.