The real story here is why is everybody acting so differently this time? I have a hunch it goes way beyond this attack. The previous week, a B 52 carried 6 nuclear armed cruise missiles to the Middle East staging area, Barksdale AFB, with the news officially leaked to The Military Times (or it may have been the Army Times). So maybe I'm spreading rumors, but it is also possible the 2 incidents are connected & a joint exercise got busted by an officer with a conscience who gave a cover story to hide the reason they were mounted & moved? Could they have been intended for Iran?

Ya know, it really, really sucks to think some in our government are capable of such a thing.

I think we actually have a fair amount of control over Israel (not absolute, of course), if we choose to exercise it. This administration has not so chosen.

Syria, under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, had the right to develop nuclear power for peaceful uses. We may feel skeptical about its actual intentions, but at this early stage, I don't see how we could prove anything.

So another "quaint" international law bites the dust, and the rule is that if the U.S. or Israel don't want you to have nuclear power, then we'll blow it up or invade your country.

There's a reason, surely, that the president is afraid to come out and admit that's our policy.