Fred,

Enjoy your comments, very good, but in this case, knocking around Iran could be satisfying, but I can see that playing into Putin’s hands. I doubt he cares about the Middle East except as a distraction from Eastern Europe. In the short term, hitting Iran would also drive up the cost of oil. Tehran could be a decoy to keep us busy while Putin re-lives nostalgia in Eastern Europe.

Turkey may very well help us. Remember, Russia historically protected Georgia from the Ottoman Turks. The Turks carry a long hatred of the Russians, and I doubt they like the idea of sharing a border with them all of a sudden.

These are more conjecture than anything else admittedly.