Confronting Iran: Addressing the Need for a Coherent Foreign Policy

Rhetoric between Tehran and Washington is heating up again. The situation is tense as President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spar over the recent confrontation between five Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels and a U.S. navy warship in the Straight of Hormuz.  Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, commander of the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet, reported receiving threatening radio transmissions as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels closed in on the U.S. vessel on Sunday, January 6, 2008, claiming that the latter would "explode in a couple of minutes...