Threatening Iran [with](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran116.xml) [war](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6997935.stm) to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons is decidedly counter-productive. What better way to prove to any nation (not just Iran) that it needs atomic bombs to ensure national security?

How can politicians anybody be so brain dead?