High Noon in Washington

The much-hyped showdown between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu left the big guns holstered but with Iran still in both men's long-range sights.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - An eve-of-war atmosphere is presently far more pervasive in Washington than in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. The United States is just starting to emerge from the so-called Great Recession - its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Americans are concerned that an attack on Iran will immediately send the already high price of oil skyrocketing, and plunge their economy into a downward spiral.

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