Scott Ritter's piece is right on the mark.
Inch by inch we are all being drawn into a world where the United States, or its proxy Israel, is free to bomb people on mere suspicion and with no legitimate explanation afterward.
Here is a form of police-state activity never foreseen by Orwell: states without dictators behaving like international bullies on a perpetual basis, using rubbish about terrorists the way Stalin used the word "wreckers."
Why? Simply to get what they want under the cover of higher-sounding purpose. Democracies are perfectly capable of nasty behavior, as we've seen many times.
Actually, I suspect this entire mission may have been a black-op, with the US and Israel cooperating, to destroy a harmless facility, later asserting it was a North Korean-assisted nuclear project.
Dick "the madman" Cheney loves this kind of crap. He wants North Korea intimidated to speed up nuclear facility-talks. Israel got to show off to the Arabs what it can do, and, besides, welcomes any opportunity to attack something in Syria. Israel's hatred towards Syria is almost palpable.
Israel never hesitated to say just what it had done in its illegal attack on Iraq's reactor decades ago.
And I just do not think North Korea would do this. The traditional absolute states are the most secretive of all in such matters, just as they are the last to ever harbor terrorists.
