Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Leon Panetta

Iran Dept: Inside the Beltway, however, there are growing worries about the possibility of a new war in the Middle East. Just last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned that Iran might have a nuclear device within a year. Iran s nuclear program, however, may soon be buried so far under a mountain that conventional bombs will no longer be able to blow it up. To forestall that possibility, Israel is talking about blowing it up this year instead. Meanwhile, Iran s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued new calls for Israel s destruction, according to The Chronicle Herald. Washington feels caught in the middle. But the last American combat troops only just left Iraq and 70,000 U.S. soldiers are still mired in the bloody stalemate of Afghanistan. Despite some positive signs, the U.S. economy is still wheezing. The American electorate doesn t want to see their country involved in yet another overseas war and amid the cacophony of Republican primary politics, the Planned Parenthood brouhaha and the Super Bowl excitement last week, there were far more serious and ominous developments unfolding overseas that are going somewhat unnoticed in a country consumed, more than ever, with domestic issues. So much for Madonna s Super Bowl plea for world peace. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.