I think the "Joint IED Defeat Organization" is a howler of a name. :-)

But the US needs NATO to "defend" Turkish borders. That's the casus belli that gets Uncle Shmuel's nose under the Syrian tent, so he can openly intervene and configure the outcome.

Hmmm, bet the base commander and the Harrier squadron commander never thought an enemy reinforced sapper squad would end their careers.

What's even more important is that the American public has the political discernment of a house fly.

So the Junior G-Men in the financial world decide to strike a blow for "free-dumb." The imbeciles that comprise the large majority of the US population will buy it, however - hook, line and sinker.

Of course Amano is "frustrated" with Iran. That's why the CIA had him installed as the head of the IAEA. El Baradei didn't get "frustrated" with Iranian compliance, and that made the FedGov very, very angry. You could see the steam coming out of the ears of the spokespersons and their handlers. What was El Baradei doing to their precious contrivance of a casus belli??? He was single-handedly derailing it! Oy! What to do??? Fortunately for them, El Baradei had a fixed term, so they didn't have to arrange for an accident. Those wet operations just don't seem to go off as well as they used to, so they're a, how do we put it, a "risk management liability." Instead, they waited him out, as much as it tortured Nutty-yahoo - you could see the steam coming out of his ears -, and after El Baradei left office they got even by putting a corrupt, bought-and-paid-for tool in charge of the one agency that actually gets to see Iranian nuclear facilities.

There can be no negotiated settlement, because the rebellion/invasion - it's not a civil war - was started and has been kept going by foreign powers that seek the elimination of Assad's government. Either Assad's forces utterly annihilate the invaders and rebels, or he follows Qaddafi and Hussein to the butcher's yard. The foreign powers that are behind this rebellion and invasion are perfectly willing to expend an unlimited number of Arab lives to achieve their victory.

So Romney threatens "crippling sanctions" on Irah, huh? Considering what's already being done to the Iranians, Romney's blustering sounds like a threat to cut off the arms of a quadriplegic. That's what the sucking up to the Zionists does to people. It makes them ridiculous caricatures of cartoon figures.

Meanwhile, the the sane people of the world wait for Nutty-yahoo and his country once and for all to be forced to be civilized.

"The recent threats against Iran have had an impact on crude oil prices, with the NYMEX trading up several percent again today, meaning all told, a 10 percent rise in prices over the past seven trading days."

What a nice little windfall for the speculators . . .