It’s going to take sustained military action.

And everybody in any position of power is doing everything they can to avoid coming to so sober a conclusion.

But at least the diplomatic effort was made. That effort was ill starred from the start. But history and future generations will know where the onus of blame for this entire drama should be placed.

History will not allow Blair, Olmert, or most significantly Bush, to escape blame if Tehran gets the bomb, by saying they urged the United Nations to live up to their proclamations and mandate.

Everybody knows the UN is a joke, and that any effort to try to solve this problem through its auspices is nothing more than a bad joke, and one of enormous bad taste at that.

I don’t know what additional evidence they need that diplomacy is a joke on this whole nightmare.