I was referring to Israel. America has many, many thousands of nuclear weapons, not just 400 of them.

Israel, you see, is so sacrosanct (due to past horrific injustices against the Jewish people by the Nazis and others) that to merely mention their name in a critical way in public is unwise, as it arouses extreme reactions in people who tend to react first and think later.

It's kind of like being in Iran, and criticizing the Koran. You do it at your own peril. This is not what's supposed to happen in a democracy, which is why I'm pretty cynical about the moral pretensions of our society.

- LH