January 30th is the birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With this morning's screaming headlines from Cairo, with the Mideast once again erupting, it's a good time to consider how we got here. Our biggest concern in the Mideast is the dread prospect of Iran "going nuclear." Or, now, we must imagine an Islamist Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood going nuclear. Jihadists with nukes are as dangerous today as the threat of Hitler getting a nuclear weapon was in 1939.Imagine the scene. Scientist Alexander Sachs, described as a "gadfly," was admitted to the Oval Office on a sultry August day in 1939. He carried a letter to President Roosevelt from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein that described how a bomb might be constructed using nuclear fission. Sachs wasn't sure the president understood his presentation.  The White House then was not air conditioned because FDR said it gave him colds. Sachs offered to go through his information again. The...(Read Full Post)