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IRAN'S THEOCRATIC leaders are not an attractive group of men. Their behavior and their public statements provide much ammunition for those who are convinced their regime should be toppled. Iran is a dangerous country.
But Iran does not pose an existential threat to the United States analogous to imperial Japan, Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. It is not a rising superpower that threatens to dominate the globe--a regional troublemaker, yes. But "confronting Iran" should not become the guiding focus of U.S. foreign policy.
Rhetoric about Iran's malign propensities has received much attention. A worst-case analysis, most vigorously argued by Norman ...