Washington -- I did a guest spot on a Denver talk radio show last week, and was stunned when the program’s hosts turned the topic to Iran.

Talk is cheap. But the hosts were ready -- in fact, sounded downright eager -- to beat the war drums....

My radio hosts are not alone. In neo-conservative quarters here, the trumpets are sounding.

"There are those who see a tyrant regime" and are working to push the U.S. into a "cataclysmic" war, said Steven Clemons, director of the New America Foundation, a think tank that held an all-day conference on Iran’s nuclear ambitions last week....

"The odds that the use of force will be counterproductive are staggeringly high," said Flynt Leverett, who served as a Middle Eastern expert at the White House and the State Department during Bush’s first term....

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