Iraqi delegation in last-ditch effort to seek diplomatic solution to border crisis

ANKARA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- A high-level Iraqi delegation arrived in Ankara on Thursday to discuss steps Turkey and Iraq can take to ease tension along their borders and eradicate presence of the Kurdish Workers' Party's (PKK) in Iraq.

Iran dismisses the chance of a US strike

TEHRAN, Iran - The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of a U.S. military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with an "even more decisive" strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported Friday.

This is unbelievable. I'm starting to believe that the now-replicating bully-pulpit World War III meme first inspired by Newt Gingrich last year with respect to how World War III would start with Lebanon, also has real, tangible, undesirable properties.

Is it the end of the world as we know it ?