By Steve Clemons

. . .in ten minutes at 10:30 pm on Mike Malloy’s show. Sam Seder is standing in and hosting tonight for Mike Malloy — and we are going to discuss my recent Salon.com article on Iran.

I’m so worried about this country and the world in general. I know many of you are as well, and I’m sure than many have felt like I do now in the past. I’ve always been fascinated by the authors of the “lost generation” like Thomas Wolfe.

Of course it was! But it’s nice to hear an honest assessment from Greenspan.

For those TWN readers in the area — and I just met two — I will be at the Starbucks in Westwood, California for the next few hours. It’s a great, sunny day here. Jodie Foster’s The Brave One is playing at one of Westwood’s posh old line movie houses next door.

Just caught this. Politico‘s Kenneth Vogel suggests that Mitt Romney’s silence about the Blackwater killings in Iraq may have something to do with the fact that: The top counterterrorism and national security adviser to Romney’s presidential campaign is Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA.

(Laurie Rubiner, Legislative Director in the Office of Senator Hillary Clinton) Hillary’s foreign policy team has some of the mega-stars in the national security business. She has Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Sandy Berger, Wesley Clark, William Perry, and a good number of their acolytes — but her counselors are about as top-heavy as George W….

Iraq throws out Blackwater. America keeps employing them and has Blackwater stay. Someone in the White House press corps be sure to ask Bush about that “Rule of Law” thing. (I know. . .Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Haditha, illegal wiretaps. . .). I’m in Denver now — flying to Los Angeles.

My former boss, Senator Jeff Bingaman, did not vote with others to condemn MoveOn.org‘s recent ads attacking David Petraeus. Bingaman votes his conscience — and sometimes that is a lonely exercise.

Tomorrow at noon Pacific Time, I will be on with Warren Olney of KCRW’s To The Point. I think that the show runs live at 3 pm in DC — and then is replayed at 9 or 10 pm.

I think not, at least not in the way that those asserting that Bush will bomb Iran have been arguing. I make my case in a piece titled “Why Bush Won’t Bomb Iran” that ran as the lead on Salon.com yesterday.