It has ever been the strategem of aggressors who seek justification for a "first strike" to assert that their opponents are insane, evil, and capable of anything. One's own insane actions are presumably thereby rendered moral and proper against one who has been labelled as an insane opponent. Ha ha.

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, and saying "it's okay for me to do what would be normally be considered an insane act were anyone ELSE to do it, because I'm good and the people I'm about to do it to are evil and insane."

This is the classic defence of one's own insanity by implying that insanity is a condition found only in one's opponents. No, my friend, insanity applies to everyone when they act in an insane fashion, and pre-emptive wars are criminally insane actions...or merely criminally pragmatic actions. You do them because you're paraniod or you do them because you think you can win...or both.

I doubt that the Iranians are any crazier than you, BB, because their opinion of the sanity of those they consider "enemies" appears to be identical to yours. Therefore, they are, by that hypocritical form of logic that justifies all pre-emptive strikes, entirely justified in killing you first.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Wouldn't it be ironical if two nations went to war merely because they BOTH regarded the other as being incapable of acting in a sane manner? This would be a case of 2 idiots, each incapable of honest self-awareness, each battling to the death against their own mirror image.

I believe that describes Israel and their Muslim opponents quite well, as a matter of fact. It also described the USA and the Soviet Union quite well, back in the Cold War.