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"Iran just wants to puff its chest."

You seem to think that making nukes is the only way to get them. You're mistaken.

Besides, there's all sorts of mischief they could try, short of floating a nuke into Baltimore Harbor or something. For example, they could get frisky in the Strait of Hormuz or the Panama Canal. A USS Cole-type attack at either would put a big dent in world commerce. They could send a few jihadis with shoulder-fired missiles to loiter around some airports, then shoot at a few airliners in a simultaneous attack. (They wouldn't even have to hit their targets to cause havoc.) They could send some suicide bombers to a couple of packed stadiums. There are all sorts of ways for them to cause trouble if they decide the U.S. is not going to accept their invitation to Islam, which as Mansfield notes has been a warning of attack.

This is not the time to stick one's head in the sand, not when the enemy may be telling you, as his religion requires, that an attack is imminent.

Hmmm.
Anything short of a nuke is an invitation to destruction.

Go ahead - kill a few hundred or a few thousand Americans. See your nation laid waste. Only the threat of nuclear reprisal would slow us.

The only issue I would have with this is that the idiots in Washington, D.C. would insist on putting Iran back together again rather leaving it as an object lesson.

Besides, there's all sorts of mischief they could try, short of floating a nuke into Baltimore Harbor or something.

If they have something like a suitcase nuke, they could just as easily bring it in via Mexico. The border is wide open as a matter of national policy, and I'm sure those elements of the Mexican army working with the drug lords would happily assist.

Did you have to use Baltimore Harbour as an example? I live on the Patapsco and work in DC. Almost every time I take the metro I wonder if today will be the day.