"Why the difference? "
Youwere the one who usually hid behind the claim of '
thread drift' when it got out of your comfort zone.
You were as free as anybody here to open a thread on Syria and I have no doubt you would have the support of everybody here (assuming you would not be supporting the massacres, or claiming they were not happening, of course) but you didn't, now you are berating the rest of us for not doing what you haven't done.
You are the major supporter of state terrorism on this forum with your blind support for Israel - now you are attempting to veer the discussion away from the nuclear threat posed by two terrorist states - can't you try to be a little more subtle?
Jim Carroll