Etrerien, hang in there with the common sense. I think I sense that more people have more anxiety since this recent m. east mess got underway than anytime I can recall since 9/11....but the Russian amuses me because it seems that in darkly trying so hard to avoid any kind of sensible interpretation of anything, it ends up in some weird positions that don't fit with big events while it concentrates on peripheral ones. You have to wonder how its readers can keep riding along. For example, isn't the US kind of the world's boogeyman for support of Israel and doesn't the Russian government lean to protection of Iran as a trading partner? And doesn't everyone know Iran wants more regional power and tries to foil the US however it can? Then how did we get at the point of trying to HELP them in this latest installment?