Please don't close them straits!

Egads, this really seems like the worst possible time for another Mideast war. Or is that always the case? "Crisis, schmisis!" Iran is, after all, a signatory to the Non-proliferation treaty, and Israel isn't. Obviously there is a need for something other than the West's usual brinkmanship... How about diplomacy, INSTEAD!?! As f*cked up as the Iranian Government is, Iran never overthrew OUR democratically-elected government. Iran never armed and equipped repressive secret police, at the cost of thousands of US lives lost. But all those things were done to Iranians by America. This whole situation calls for the most delicate sort of negotiation...