We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.

Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.

Iran is one to three years away from making a bomb.

Preliminary conditions need to be set first and this has not been done yet. Iran is in no rush for these conditions to be set because we were from the beginning pessimistic about U.S. needs.

And a ton came down on a coloured road,
And a ton came down on a gaol,
And a ton came down on a freckled girl,
And a ton on the black canal,

And a ton came down on a hospital,
And a ton on a manuscript,
And a ton shot up through the dome of a church,
And a ton roared down to the crypt.

And a ton danced over the Thames and filled
A thousand panes with stars,
And the splinters leapt on the Surrey shore
To the tune of a thousand scars.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.