It's Mother's Day and the News Is Slow

Normally, I wouldn't link to the following story but it's a slow night. Jackie Ashley of the British newspaper, The Guardian, refers to a recent American visitor:

...was rammed home forcibly to me when interviewing Shirley Williams for Radio 4's The Week in Westminster. It was now clear, she said, that a section of the US administration was committed to a likely military strike against Iran. "I'm truly worried," she said. "I wouldn't give the world very long. These are very high stakes indeed."

If that sounds alarmist, then it should be noted that she was in the studio with a former US state department official who said the military option would not be taken off the table: "The only thing worse than the military option is a [nuclear-weapon] armed Iran. We don't need to take action this year to prevent that." Note, this year.

If the story is accurate, it would be interesting to know who the former US state department official was.