Several weeks ago, I was invited to the Hertzliya Conferences, Israel's political follow up to Davos. I came back with the eerie sense that a new four-letter word has emerged in the international arena: Iran. Iran was mentioned, or alluded to, no less than 47 times during the two and...

Brian Williams' recent interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was broadcast on national TV. Tieless, but wearing his signature sport jacket and perpetual grimace, Ahmadinejad pre-empted his interviewer by calling for the return of the twelfth Imam to cure all the ills of the world including "poverty," "injustice," "egotism," "greed"...