The Bush administration's position on Iran is "all options are on the table."
A few days ago, DNC Chair Howard Dean, speaking at the annual conference of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, responded by pushing all the Democrats' chips into the middle of the table:
"Under no circumstances will a Democratic Administration ever allow Iran to become a nuclear power."
Are either the Republicans or Democrats bluffing? My gut feeling is that they are when it comes to a military response, but definitely not when it comes to economic warfare which, as the Iraqi people found out during the 90's, can be just as deadly as military warfare.
We won't know for sure until the cards are turned over. But one thing we do know. Those aren't chips they're playing for. They're human lives. Hundreds, thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of Iranian lives, and quite possibly the lives of Americans, Israelis, Iraqis, and who knows who else.