Originally published at A.L.P.
A picture of a winter city street, which could be anywhere, except for the inscription at the bottom. It is peaceful and most of us have experienced something like it, yet knowing that it is Tehran invokes something else. What is it?
Fear. I feel it seeping into my life, out of the television and computer screens into my imagination. I watch people now act more uncertain in some ways than in the aftermath of 9/11. I read essays and columns, blogs and diatribes and some of them say we have a lot more than fear itself to fear. I watched part of CBS's Jericho Wednesday evening and agree with previous commentators that it is a stalking horse designed to inure the American public to the idea of a survivable nuclear war.