Fighting won't settle anything.

The fight, uploaded on to YouTube, has gone viral and the tug of words continues online.

So the silver lining in this fracas is that it showed that economics can progress by the rules of science.

While Turkey s lurch into the fray in 2010 may have been unwelcome, its interest in calming a situation involving an immediate neighbor is understandable.

Here is a fight over the single most successful monetary policy measure of recent decades not just in Europe, but anywhere.

Most modern cases of sanctions pit a large country against a small country, though there are a few cases involving countries of equal size, such as the long quarrel, from the 1950s to the 1980s, between the United Kingdom and Spain over Gibraltar.

So the silver lining in this fracas is that it showed that economics can progress by the rules of science. No matter how far apart their political views may have been, the two sides shared a common language about what constitutes evidence and for the most part a common approach to resolving differences.

In this video, they make a fake interview with Juan Nose Vainas (Juan I Don't Know Stuff) where he shows the results of the treatment consisting of training his students in catcalls, fighting for men, oggling men and walking in high heels for women and getting lucky with the opposite sex.

While the governments in Teheran and Washington appear to be strategic archrivals, in the words of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, there are few nations in the world with which the United States has less reason to quarrel or more compatible interests than Iran.