Nuanced foreign policy analysis from the popular left-wing blogger Atrios, who doubles as a key player at David Brock’s Media Matters for America watchdog site:

Look, I just don’t get this stuff. I don’t want Iran to have nukes. I don’t think that’s a good thing for the world. I certainly didn’t want Pakistan or India to have nukes. But is a nuclear Iran really a threat to us? Certainly an Iran-with-nukes could blow the hell out of a city or two, but an Iran that did such a thing would pretty much cease to exist. It isn’t mutually assured destruction, it’s you f–k with us a little bit and YOU NO LONGER LIVE BITCHES!