I agree with Ann that Santorum has had a remarkable run of gaffs and fails to adequately defend his positions. Despite his time in Congress, he is not a slick, polished political huckster. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and speaks from the heart about the greatness of America and mourns the loss of class, morals and decency that used to be hallmarks of American society. In contrast, both Mitt and Obama have the same speech patterns: platitude, platitude, cliche, cliche, cliche, half-truth, twisted opponent's quote and nasty attack. Bottom line is, I would rather have a man who lives with the consequences of his personal convictions, warts and all, than with someone who I know is lying with every breath and couldn't care less...

Besides, assurances could be made to the Ruskies and the Chinese that, once the mullahs are removed, the oil would continue to flow from Iran, possibly at much better rates than they are getting now, so long as they stayed on the sidelines. I doubt they like having to deal with Ahmedinijad and the mullahs any more than we do. Iran could come out of this much better off than they are now if we just cut the head off the snake.

You make some good points, Benjamin, but the whole rest of the Middle East fears a resurgent Persian Empire and would back us against them, as would Europe and most of the rest of the world. I doubt that eastern Asia would get involved, knowing that between the Navy and the Air Force, we could reduce their nations to rubble in a matter of minutes.

If Daddy Bush had done what needed to be done in 1990, Dubya wouldn't have needed to go back in '03 to try to finish the job. Mercy is useless against these animals. They are like a rabid wolverine. You don't negotiate with it, you kill it.

Precisely. Diplomacy doesn't work with them. It's in the Koran for them to lie, cheat, steal, do whatever it takes to undermine the infidels. None of the proscriptions in their holy book apply when it comes to dealing with non-Muslims. They only respect overwhelming strength, and the willingness to use it. Simply being strong without the will to use our strength just proves to them how weak and decadent we are. If we have to move against them, we have to CRUSH them, just like the Mossad did with the PLO terrorists after the Munich Olympics.

They Iranians have been stockpiling thousands of Chinese-made Silkworm anti-ship missiles since the Clinton presidency. These missiles have the range and power to destroy any ship in the Strait, even one of our nuke carriers. It would be a fatal mistake for them to use the missiles against the American navy, but the initial damage would be horrific.

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if he played Chamberlain to Ahmedinijad's Hitler just to spite us. He hates this country as much as our overseas enemies and he and his fellow Dems will say or do anything, no matter how despicable, to stay in power and advance their liberal agenda.

You are applying western common sense and logic to a people who have been brainwashed for generations. Look at how many older Russians still long for the return of the Soviet Union!

No matter how much a coward Obama is when it comes to confronting foreign leaders, and no matter how much an appeaser he has been towards the Muslims, I think he would be forced to act if the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz. The rest of the Persian Gulf states would demand that the U.S. use our unmatched naval power to keep their oil flowing to the rest of the world, because without that oil income, they are just a bunch of 10th century despots, insignifigant on the world stage. They can't kill fellow Muslims, but hiring infidels to do it for them is always acceptable for them. Then, they would stir up the jihadists against us. Win-win for them. They get what they want and they stay in power for a few more years until the oil runs out.

Most states have either bar codes or magnetic strips on their driver's licenses and state id cards. During the two years I lived in Denver, I noticed that cashiers could swipe your card through the credit card scanner to check your age and confirm an alcohol purchase. If this technology was available ten years ago, why can't California use the same process to allow self-service alcohol purchases?