How in the name of God (Allah, Buddha, Moses, Jehovah) would I know from here the likelihood of any military action of the U.S. or Israel against any country in the world? The only thing I know is the fact that most powerful leaders of these days think and behave like kindergartners. And kindergartners like to hit their fellow students, especially when they think themselves the stronger ones. Following this logic, the likelihood of an attack on a scale of 1 to 10 is actually an 11—at least.

On the other hand, lame ducks seldom start new wars because doing so would create a dark chapter in the history of their Presidentdom (if that word doesn’t exist in the American language, then keep it). Lame duck presidents usually focus on their legacies, which means to create a nice library that will be visited by people who are losing some of their marbles. Since I fall into that group, I am already planning a trip to the Bush Memorial Library, somewhere in Texas.

For extra points, I think the date of such an attack is June 39 (Miklós Vámos Day of Reading European Fiction). Hmmm?