Like you, plnelson, I too am a gardener... Gardeners understand the natural timing of things... Non-gardners tend to over water and smother their plants... And then wonder why they are dead???

Me thinks that gardening should be a requirement for any national leader...

It's no secret that the US was involved in installing the Shah and it's also ne secret that Iran wasn't ready yet... Actually, Iran may never be "ready yet"... That is a reality that we cannot change...

Yeah, we can rattle sabres and threaten... We can bomb... We can invade... But like that plant in our garden, if we don't allow it the luxary of time, we will fail... This is one concept that folks here in the US just can't seem to internalize... Seems we have been at war with someone ever since the "War to End All Wars"...

In the words of the late Waylon Jennings, "We need a change..."

B~