There's still a world out there !

I wonder if peaceful times are corrupting times. Have

    we forgotten that there's still a big, bad world out there ? We are

    about to  make a momentous  definition of our national character :

     Are we a nation of PRIGS or a nation of LIBERTINES  ?

                Meanwhile we can read a truly hair-raising story on

    the front page of the New York Times : " Defector Describes Iraq's

    Atom Push " .

          The defector scientist, Khidir Abdul Abas Hamza , is not an

    admirable person. He does explain just how an ignorant brute like

    Saddam Hussein can dominate Iran scientific establishment . They

    are controlled like laboratory rats - lavish rewards for pleasing

    the dictator of Iraq, horrible torture for disappointing him .

         Who said knowledge is power ?  If only those murdered

    scientists could talk ?

            American intelligence officials " grossly underestimated

    Iraq's nuclear program ", the article said.

         Have we been  living in a fantasy world since the end of

    the Cold War ? Just months ago India, then Pakistan exploded

    nuclear weapons ( " now we have the Islamic bomb. Allah be

    praised ! "  - a near quote . )

             But what we really want to know is this : " Did Monica

    Lewinsky have oral sex with Bill Clinton ?

        But for ALL of us the ultimate " blow job " might be just

    a few years away !