Of course the USA has treaty obligations to protect Israel if Israel is attacked. I have no argument with that. I think it's Iran and Syria that are in danger of being attacked here, far more than Israel.

(As for covert actions, various forms of unofficial attack and sabotage, terrorist attacks, or attacks by proxy, those have been carried out anyway on all parties by all parties over the last few years, if not decades, so no one has the moral high ground when it comes to that. When I speak of an attack, I'm speaking of a direct attack BY the armed forces of a nation.)

I have no doubt that Iran is enriching uranium...but I have no proof that they are not doing it in order to produce nuclear power, as they claim. If they are doing it indeed to build nuclear weapons, I don't regard the mere building of weapons as a crime. I regard the USE of weapons as a crime.

If you are opposed to nuclear proliferation, and I can well understand why you would be, then you must in all justice be opposed to Israel building and deploying nuclear weapons too, I would think. But you're not. You know as well as I do that they already have done so, everyone knows it. It's just not official. It's an unspoken, unadmitted reality that everyone is aware of.

If you think it's okay for Israel to illegally and clandestinely commit nuclear proliferation and get away with it...but it's not okay for Iran, North Korea, or Syria or anyone else to do it...then what you are saying basically is something like this: Israelis are very good human beings who can do whatever they want to, because I like them. Syrians, Iranians, and North Koreans are evil subhumans who should be massacred if they dare to do what Israelis have already done. They cannot EVER be allowed equality with Israelis or with Americans because they are countries under regimes which are inherently evil, and we will destroy them if they ever dare to do what Israel has already done.

If that's what you're saying, it speaks for itself. I won't say what it is. You wouldn't like it.

Iranians, Syrians, and North Koreans don't like it. No surprise to me. They are the ones under the Amerian-Israeli bombsight, and they know that they are human beings like the rest of us, and due the same degree of human dignity.