Possibly the reason Mohamed ElBaradei and the UN agency he heads, the "watchdog" International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently won the Nobel Peace Prize was  because they all think that "peaceful" countries such as Iran and Syria and even North Korea want to go nuclear to improve the lot of their citizens, and would never, ever, under any circumstances build a nuclear reactor for manufacturing nuclear weapons. And if they ever did, why he and his agency would stop them.  The real problem, according to ElBaradei, is that some countries, notably the US and Israel, don't trust their terror-supporting neighbors and enemies and make the situation even worse when they take defensive, pre-emptive actions, such as Israel apparently did in September, 2007, bombing an alleged under construction nuclear reactor in bordering Syria.  Nope, there were no suspicious environmental samples or other proof that Syria would do such a...(Read Full Post)