Anybody who has lived in a country where fundamentalist Islam is entrenched in the government would be glad to explain just how b@t$hit crazy some of these theocracies can get. And when they spend 45 years encouraging their people to shout “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” and then devote a significant amount of their national GDP to nukes and ICBM development, it’s not surprising that the target countries become concerned.

And yeah, I’d prefer Congress actually do their constitutional job rather than push the hard decisions off to an unelected Executive bureaucracy or the President too, but they seem to dodge all the tough calls in favor of Monday morning quarterbacking.