This from the Jerusalem Post…

The British newspaper said that a battery of US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missiles had been moved to the Negev site following intelligence that Damascus may launch a raid in retaliation for the September 6 strike on a suspected nuclear installation in northern Syria.

I find it hard to believe that Israel’s Nuclear reactor has only recently been protected by Patriot anti-aircraft missiles. I think that this “News Story” is a warning to Syrian not to try anything.

But it should also serve as a warning to all of us. We become so accustomed to stability and wealth that we don’t think about all the ways in which the world is balanced on a knife’s edge. Just think of what would happen should Syrian or Iran launch a successful strike on Israel’s nuclear reactor. The results of such a successful strike are unpredictable, but the after effects would probably make current oil prices look cheap.

I am not saying that such a strike will happen. In fact, the worst disasters are usually those things that nobody anticipates. But we should never fall into the trap of thinking that stable is normal.