Originally Posted by War.mongeR1

How come when GW does something unilaterally, he has heck to pay from the media, but when Billy did it, it was all cool?

Originally Posted by marstein

Just a spelling interjection here. FLAK is Flugabwehrkanone = Flight Defense Canon. Not flack. The military has their own abbreviation language and flak is a german one. Just Fyi.

Originally Posted by Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: flak
Variant(s): also flack \ˈflak\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural flak also flack
Etymology: German, from Fliegerabwehrkanonen, from Flieger flyer + Abwehr defense + Kanonen cannons
Date: 1938
1: antiaircraft guns
2: the bursting shells fired from flak
3 also flack : criticism, opposition

Originally Posted by Switchcraft

Cowardice? I'm gonna go with genius. This way saved the most lives, the most money, avoided war, and avoided any major break in diplomatic ties. It avoided bringing a nuclear arms race to the Arab world, avoided having the rest of the Arab nations having to worry about a nuclear Syria, or about Syria, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah trying to bring a nuke to Israel and having the rest of them face the consequences.

Would the Security Council or the IAEA have been able to provide a more rapid, peaceful, and diplomatic solution? Signs point to no.

Winners: America, Israel, Syria, North Korea, pretty much everybody else. Losers: Guys selling illegal nuclear weapons technolgy unlucky enough to be in that reactor, Russian arms dealers who do false advertising.