Red dawn is still fiction.

"They might not be a superpower, but the threat the Government of Iran poses is anything but tiny."
- Senator John McCain (R-AZ), remarks delivered May 19, 2008

"The danger from Iran is grave; it is real; and my goal will be to eliminate this threat."
- Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), remarks delivered June 4, 2008

The Center For Arms Control and Non-Proliferation did everyone a favor today. In lieu of all the talk from both candidates and both parties about the danger Iran poses, they put together a list of the actual instead of the fevered dreams of the possible. Stopping them from attaining nuclear weapons is the correct goal, but otherwise, Iran can't do anything to us. They aren't a serious existential threat. You and your friends aren't going to have to hold them off from crossing the East River, all the while screaming "WOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLVERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINES!" Sorry. And trying to tamp down Iran's nuclear ambition while screaming about them as an imminent threat that needs to be dealt with (like say smugly singing bomb bomb Iran) doesn't exactly make the case to Iran that no nukes are a good thing.

Sleep tight. The islamofascists don't march at dawn.