 I
want to remind you about just a few of the stories that made
big headlines in the media over the last few months:
We had the Virginia Tech shootings; Imus got fired; Paris
was sentenced to prison; Anna Nicole's baby needed a father;
Brittney shaved her head and went to rehab; Rosie said a
bunch of insane things and then quit; David Hasselhoff got
hammered and made a video; Alec Baldwin went off on his
daughter, Miss USA partied too much, an Astronaut went crazy
and Sanjaya was voted off American Idol.
You know why everyone has spent so many hours infatuated
with those stories? It's because they're all about
celebrities or violence or public embarrassment. With a few
exceptions, the stories themselves weren't all that
important; but what was important was that they kept us
watching the news because they fed our hunger for
entertainment; they played right into the narcissism that we
talked about yesterday; the narcissism that is America.
Now, I hate to play "Mr. Gloomy" all the time, and I know
I'm not going to set any ratings records for it, but the
Real Story is that our enemies aren't going away just
because we get distracted by stories like the DC Madam. (By
the way, what a letdown that turned out to be.)
Almost two months have now passed since the U.N. last
approved any sanctions against Iran and, guess what
everybody -- they haven't stopped enriching uranium just
because we've stopped paying attention! In fact, a surprise
IAEA inspection last Sunday proved that they're enriching
more uranium than ever before. According to the inspectors,
about 1,300 centrifuges were actively producing fuel during
the inspection, another 600 were in some stage of
construction and, most frightening of all -- a diplomat
claims that a total of 8,000 centrifuges could be in place
by the end of this year.
Let me put that in perspective for anyone without a
do-it-yourself centrifuge kit: 3,000 centrifuges operating
for one year can make enough nuclear material for a bomb.
You do the math on 8,000.
The good news is that the current uranium is only enriched
to about 5 percent and weapons grade uranium needs to be
enriched to 90 percent. The bad news is that experts say
Iran could do that in as little as four months. But there is
one small problem, and I've been telling you about for
months: they'd have to evict the U.N. inspectors
first...that's the tipping point we're all looking for.
Once that happens, there will be no doubt as to Iran's true
intentions and no doubt as to what we'll be forced to do to
stop them. The only question is if we'll all be too
distracted by Lindsay Lohan's next drinking binge to even
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