Think back to this hypothetical headline from 1937:
Preventing a Nuclear Germany-- Should Military Force be Used?
The filthbags now in charge in Iran make Hitler look like a 10 year old schoolgirl by comparison.
Now that's some dangerous hyperbole. The Iranians talk the talk. Hitler walked the walk. Hitler (and Stalin) still make the mullahs look small time. The current Iranian crackpot is more on par with Mussolini, but not as bright.
Well, no, not really -- they're far less efficient, and only about equally repressive. The Iranians are, however, more sophisticated than the Taliban, who they otherwise most closely resemble.
And mention of the Taliban points out the most promising approach -- we back indigenous Iranian opposition groups, and destabilize the mullahs. I'm betting they're a whole lot less stable than they seem to be.
"The filthbags now in charge in Iran make Hitler look like a 10 year old schoolgirl by comparison."
I dont know about your ratio, but they teach the exact same message that it is their duty to erradicate the Jews from the earth. Knowing history, I have no doubt other Western countries would have attacked Nazi Germany in 1935-36 before they had completed the Panzer battalions that swept through Europe.