Iran, the U.S. and Israel have developed materially different approaches to the resolution of this crisis. How is it that two countries that agree so wholeheartedly on an issue's beginning and end points do not agree on what comes between? The differences stem from three areas. Different traumas: Israel sees the threat posed by Iran, in part, through the prism of the Holocaust. The Iranian regime's threats to wipe Israel off the map resonate of the propaganda expounded by the Nazi regime. The U.S. trauma, on the other hand, is the highly controversial and costly war in Iraq. Amid its drawn-out war in Afghanistan, the U.S. public and leadership are unlikely to stomach yet another war in a Muslim nation. Different timetables: Israel maintains that the past decade is proof of diplomacy's failure to stop Iranian nuclear ambitions. The U.S., however, contends there are indications that diplomacy has begun to influence the regime in Tehran. Whereas Israel's clock on military action is ticking, the superior operational capabilities of the U.S. military allow it to wait another year or two before these Iranian nuclear sites become "immune" to an American attack. Furthermore, Israel has said it can't allow Iran the capability to build a nuclear weapon, whereas the U.S. "red line" is an actual Iranian breakout for a weapon. Israel fears that, once Iran achieves this capability, it may be too late to stop any breakout. Different realities: The U.S. is more than 440 times the size of Israel, with a