Bernard Lewis has recently made a speech in which he points out that the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) arrangement between the US and Russia during the Cold War won't work with Iran, since the Iranian leaders are suicidal. Actually I thought that should have been obvious to everyone. After all, Ahmadinejad keeps talking about preparartions for the end of the world. He has said he expects the return of the Mahdi in a year or two. I don't understand why Europeans and Democrats don't pay attention to him. They don't seem to have learned anything from Hitler. I'm seeing more mention of Ahmadinejads threat of an "apocalyptic event" on 22 August in the blogsphere, but haven't seen anything in the MSM. More and more I am concluding that the MSM doesn't really know what is happening in the world, and doesn't care much. They are busy creating news to advance their own agenda, and don't have time to actually report the news.