CAMPING OUT ON THE RIVER STYX

The Hoover Institute has written another splendid little article on the perils of broke-down diplomacy. It seems that our egregious failures to deal with the Syrians to Saudi Arabia's entire satisfaction engenders more dangers then we knew. Most of the 9/11 hijackers and mass murderers were Saudi citizens showing their appreciation for the "hard line" diplomatic approach of President Bush and his team of foreign policy experts. We can't seem to keep our Saudi constituents happy no matter what we do. Oh well. I didn't vote for them either.

One of the less talked about secrets I have discovered here in the Fly-Over states is that people here earnestly don't care if Iran or Syria gets the bomb. About half of the people here think it would be a good thing for one reason and the other half think it would be a good reason for another perfectly different reason. You see the problem of course. If fanatical, filled with hate salafists and 'moderate' muslims get the bomb they're going to use it on us. But, and this is the important part, those guys are just clever enough to use it on just two targets and none of us live in Washington DC or New York City so we don't care.  OK, so they might also use it on San Francisco, that den of google evil, and we perniciously persist in not caring about that place either.

Try the do it yourself nuclear bomb simulator.

UPDATE
Sucks to be you Washington DC and New York City.