
Cliff Hangers: The Madness of King George’s Brinkmanship
US and Europe Draft Iran Resolution (NYT)
"This is the excellent foppery of the world;" this is the insanity that we live under today.
The Bush Administration is supposedly frantic with worry that Iran is about to develop nuclear weapons. A nuclear-armed Iran would be an intolerable threat to U.S. national security – we are told; it would put millions of innocent lives at risk in Israel, Europe and – very,very soon – the United States itself. Why, it’s fair to