Iran

A former US Ambassador to a country vying for the title of Identity Theft Capital of the World confided to me that he thought the US solution to Iran would involve the same technology that was used to resolve the problem with Japan at the end of the Second World War. It's one thing to hear this opinion from a fellow in a bar, tanked-up and pissed-off because his team just lost. It's quite another to hear it from a man who can get Kissinger and Negroponte on the phone.

President Bush assures us that the U.S. has no intention of attacking Iran. This message has been delivered with great conviction, which is the reason I am worried. It's been my observation that the greater the conviction with which a political statement is made, the less likely it is to be true--Bush assertions of WMDs in Iraq weren't exactly flippant asides.

Frankly, I'm more interested in looking into how all of this may have precipitated the onset of the dreaded Restless Leg Syndrome that now plagues our nation. I have a feeling there's a connection.