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The original of that Biden picture appears with Wes Pruden's column today, and I had the vision. Sorry, but doesn't that make more sense than next in line to the US presidency? *shudder* Now, to the chase.
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Barack
Obama landed Monday in Moscow, the first stop on his latest magical
mystery tour, this time to eliminate nuclear weapons, cool global
warming, drop in on the pope at the Vatican (perhaps to apologize for
the Inquisition) and make a call on his ancestral Africa (perhaps to
apologize for slavery).
Important though Mr. Obama's trip is, there's a definite buzz in the
air that something more interesting than talking and apologizing is on
the bubble elsewhere. When an interviewer asked Joe Biden whether
Israel is in its rights to punish Iran if no one else does, the veep
was unusually forthcoming: "Look," he said, "Israel can determine for
itself - it's a sovereign nation - what's in their interest and what
they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else." Then, as if
remembering who he was, he added: "Whether we agree or not."
But would the United States dissuade the Israelis? "Look," he replied,
"we cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot
do." This could be just good old Joe speaking his mind, but Mr. Obama
no doubt told him to keep his lip carefully buttoned while he was gone.
This time good old Joe was saying only what he was told to say.
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Back to the Kremlin, where the communist president and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president ...
- ... discussed cutting the number of nuclear missiles by 1,100. Or it might be 500.
The number of warheads will be limited to 1,675 each. Or it might be
less than that. Or maybe more. Whatever. The talking continues.
- ... The Russians agreed to allow American overflights
over its territory to resupply American troops as Mr. Obama expands his
war in Afghanistan.
- ... the big overflight news was reported from London, where the London
Sunday Times said the director of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence
service, had concluded from his very private talks with Saudi officials
that Saudi Arabia would not object ... .
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The Sunni states are sometimes modest in a few things but never in
their suspicion and hatred of the Shi'ites. There's the usual cry that
such an Israeli strike would "destabilize" the region, and set off a
nuclear arms race among the Sunni states. But once Iran, the chief
Shi'ite state, is capable of firing nuclear missiles the Sunnis would
certainly demand one of their own. That's when the race would begin.
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