If the civilized world continues to play around with snake-like leaders of Iran, they&8217;ll likely get bit. It&8217;s just a matter of when.

As Iranian scientist are quickly working to enrich uranium, potentially to develop a nuclear weapon, the world&8217;s leaders seem resigned to sit on their hands and see what will happen.

This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly sent a letter to President Bush. The intent was clearly to focus the world&8217;s attention on the United States rather than the ongoing nuclear work in Iran.

In the letter Ahmadinejad interweaved comments about Jesus asking how if Jesus were on earth how He would have judged Bush&8217;s policy in the Middle East.

Obviously Ahmadinejad&8217;s understanding of Jesus is different than our own.

We, for example, do not think that Jesus would agree with Ahmadinejad&8217;s assertion that Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth. Nor do we think He would agree that the Holocaust in which millions of Jews were killed was a myth, as the Iranian president once asserted.

Ahmadinejad can use the name of Jesus if he wants to, but ultimately, not matter how his words are couched, he&8217;s still avoiding the bigger issue &8212; nuclear weapons.

Until the world&8217;s leaders &8212; with the United Nations&8217; support or without it &8212; stand up to Iran and take the threat seriously, such rhetoric will continue.

With each second the man who wants to wipe a country off the face of the earth gets one second closer to having the potential to see his dream become a reality.