Steyn

You can fill out the rest of that headline easily enough. Nails it ... brilliant ... I wish I could write like that. Well he's done it again, writing on why Rove is not the real story, despite the Beltway media's obsession with its current round of speculation about which GOP boogeyman is up to what. An excerpt:

And to those who say, "but that's why Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror," sorry, it doesn't work like that. It's not either/or; it's a string of connections: unlimited Saudi money, Westernized Islamist fanatics, supportive terrorist states, proliferating nuclear technology. One day it all comes together and there goes the neighborhood. Here's another story you may have missed this week:

''Iran will resume uranium enrichment if the European Union does not recognize its right to do so, two Iranian nuclear negotiators said in an interview published Tuesday.''

Got that? If you don't let us go nuclear, we'll go nuclear. Negotiate that, John Kerry. As with Bourgass and el-Nashar, Hossein Moussavian and Cyrus Nasseri are real Iranian negotiators, not merely the deranged war fantasies of Bush and Cheney.

If you want to up your worry level, read Countdown to Crisis, and learn what Iran's really up to on the nuke front.