From Political Animal, this great and historically informed column by Fareed Zakaria on why it's not true that a) we need to take Iran seriously as the gravest threat to world peace, and b) we need to take the wingnuts seriously when they contend that (a). In brief, right-wing politicians and officials in Washington have a long, dismal history of misjudging the strength of our national enemies, from the Soviets right up to (and now past) Hussein's Iraq - with a concomitantly long, dismal history of bad results.