The SSC was sited in Texas for political reasons. Unfortunately, they could not find very many top rank physicists willing to live in Texas. That, I think, had as much to do with the project being abandoned as anything else.
My son served with the US Coast Guard, and in that capacity participated in the arrest of a group of pirates off Somalia. He informs me that, although the pirates were armed with automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades, thereby being about as well armed as the Coast Guard cutter, the Coast Guard boarding party boarded the hijacked ship with weapons holstered, and was able to defuse the situation peacefully. That the Israelis were either unable or unwilling to do the same with overwhelming force available, speaks very poorly of them.
The response of the US press is predictable because it is consistent. They are responding to this event in much the same way as they have responded to previous Israeli provocations -- by minimizing the time and space devoted to the coverage, and maximizing the fraction of that time and space devoted to presentation of the official Israeli position, the statements of Israeli apologists here, and to irrelevant information and misinformation.
The SSC was sited in Texas for political reasons. Unfortunately, they could not find very many top rank physicists willing to live in Texas. That, I think, had as much to do with the project being abandoned as anything else.
My son served with the US Coast Guard, and in that capacity participated in the arrest of a group of pirates off Somalia. He informs me that, although the pirates were armed with automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades, thereby being about as well armed as the Coast Guard cutter, the Coast Guard boarding party boarded the hijacked ship with weapons holstered, and was able to defuse the situation peacefully. That the Israelis were either unable or unwilling to do the same with overwhelming force available, speaks very poorly of them.
The response of the US press is predictable because it is consistent. They are responding to this event in much the same way as they have responded to previous Israeli provocations -- by minimizing the time and space devoted to the coverage, and maximizing the fraction of that time and space devoted to presentation of the official Israeli position, the statements of Israeli apologists here, and to irrelevant information and misinformation.