Agitation over Iran’s nuclear ambitions seems premature – and suspiciously political. Uranium enrichment, which they’ve begun, could produce material for nuclear energy (legitimate under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which they signed) and nuclear weapons (illegitimate under the treaty.) A respected journalist, recently returned from Iran, estimated the program needed 10 more years to produce a bomb.

NATO members, and Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel, China and North Korea have nuclear weapons. We have 2,300; 1,700 deployed for immediate launch.

Wild-eyed firebrand President Ahmadinejad of Iran says he wants nuclear energy to free more Iranian oil for export and needed revenue. Of course, he also wants a bomb, for national (and personal!) prestige. But what could he do with it? On whom would he use it to spark a nuclear response to completely devastate Iran?

Reporting them to the Security Council, as suspected treaty-breakers, has shamed Iran’s people. All this reportedly is increasing Iranian patriotism, even among the bombast’s political opponents!

Our prominent role in fingering Iran looks like the administration is continuing its policy of challenging the Axis of Evil, although Iraq – first item on its agenda – is a political disaster.

GWB would do well to remember that successful revolutions – French, Russian, Polish, American, Cuban – were generated domestically, not by plans of faraway saviors.

Dorothy Prince, Auburn