Nuclear watchdog scratches wrong behind

Does anyone find it reassuring that the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning countries not to bomb suspected nuclear facilities in other places? Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will issue the warning on Monday in Der Spiegel magazine, the Associated Press reported Saturday. The remarks are clearly aimed at the United States and Israel, which have been warning Iran to open its facilities to international inspection or face attack. Israel bombed a suspected nuclear facility in Syria last year and destroyed a nuclear power plant under construction in Iraq in 1981. "Unilateral military action undermines the international treaty framework. We're standing at an historic turning point," ElBaradei tells the magazine in Monday's article. ElBaradei says the willingness of some countries to attack others suspected of developing nuclear capability is a threat to peace, as is nuclear proliferation. Well, thank you, professor. Maybe you have the luxury of putting destroying nuclear weapons technology on a par with building them, but countries threatened by rogue states trying to develop the weaponry cannot rely on your words to protect themselves. No statements, regardless of their eloquence or volume, are going to stop a nuclear weapon with a ballistic missile. Iran says it is not developing nuclear weapons but only wants nuclear power. But why has Tehran continued to threaten Israel and refused to provide much of the information requested by ElBaradei's organization?