Bobert: Good to read from ya, I was a bit snappish earlier this morning as I hadn't got down the espresso that I need in order to embrace all mankind.

I think we are seeing that Obama is a practitioner of all the arts of managing information to his advantage. It is not nice, but I think it is necessary for a world leader. So I take the administration's managing of this news in a positive manner, and in going beyond that to build a consensus among other world nations, I feel he is superior in effectiveness to the previous occupant.

As for Iran's threat to Israel, I personally feel it is being managed on the Iranian side as a goad to the West, of which they regard Israel a puppet. I don't think Iran gives a sh*t about the Palestinians. However, Israel tends to get beleaguered by her neighbors, so Israel might take it a whole lot serious.

I think that Saudi Arabia takes nukes in Iran a whole lot serious as well. The Saudi ruling family can be effectively beleaguered by its own terrorists/ fanatics* and does not see a Shiite state gaining power as anything other than a threat that can lash out externally or internally at them. I think the Saudis are threatened MORE than Israel by an Iranian nuke, and they know it.


*We are on the threshhold of the thirtieth anniversary of the Siege of Mecca by armed Sunni fundamentalists. It led to armed conflict around the Holy Shrine, and the deaths of hundreds. The Iranian Ayatollah lied on the air that it was due to Americans and Zionists and the US embassy in Islmabad was overrun and razed to the ground by a mob.