We have long fingers pointed at Iran for disregard of international protocols. In 2003 we had the same fingers pointed at Iraq. Maybe rightly so. Iraq was until 2002 in flagrant violation of UN protocols. So are other countries.

Soon UN inspectors will be going into Syria to inspect what might have been a covert nuclear facility.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/200806...a-ca02f96.html

But they believe they have a difficult job facing them. Why? Let's quote the head of the IAEA.

"But the IAEA's chief says there is no evidence Syria had the skills or fuel to run a major nuclear complex, and that a U.S. failure to alert inspectors before Israel's air strike last year would make it hard to verify what the target actually was. But it is doubtful that we will find anything there now, assuming there was anything there in the first place."

Great!! If anyone other than the US or Israel had done this all hell would have broken loose. You think not? OK, imagine Iran bombing the crap out of Israel's nuclear facilities which DO produce plutonium and which DO produce nuclear ordinance and which are also NOT under IAEA monitoring. See what I'm getting at.

What did Tom Casey say of the IAEA's whinging? "The reality here is that there's some pretty strong evidence out there about what Syria was doing." Now where have we heard that before I wonder?

So when the Arabs (and Iran) say that they are being discriminated against, we might start to understand what they mean. And we might start to understasnd that ofter 60 years they are getting mightily brassed off.

Hypocracy is not going to win friends in the long run - fact.