From the People Who Brought Us
Judith Miller & George Bush

Tom Friedman of the New York Times thinks we’re in a cold war with Iran. He’s correct that we’re in a cold war, but he’s two Friedman units and change late coming to that conclusion, and he’s got the enemy country wrong. We’re no more in a cold war with Iran than we were in a cold war for 50 years with Belarus.

There are, nonetheless, a few similarities between that cold war and this one.

The shocking murder-suicide rampage of 27 year-old graduate student Steven Kazmierczak appears to have been completely out of character. Reports are that he had been a disturbed adolescent who would cut his arms' however, a year of hospitalization plus medication apprently set him on track to an apparently successful academic career and a two-year relationship with a fellow student. His girl friend when interviewed yesterday on CNN said that she he was an affectionate, positive person. The only thing out of the ordinary in the week's before the incident was that he stopped taking his meds.