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As the saying goes, "Actions speak louder than words." Or how about, "Sticks [Guns] and stones [nukes] may break my bones [country] but words will never hurt me."?

Matt McIntosh over at Catallarchy points out via Matt Yglesias that there's a difference between Rhetoric and Reality:

One of the largest sources of error in reasoning about other people’s behaviour is paying more attention to what they say than to what they do . . . As mi amigo Razib likes to repeat often: there is what people say they believe, and there is what they really believe, and there is how they act – and these things are nowhere near perfectly correlated, to say the least.

Said simply, Iran is all talk with regard to bombing Israel. So why are we taking them seriously? Did we all forget to stop worrying and love the bomb?