ROGUE-STATE MISSILE FLOPS - AT 7:38 P.M. ET:  More big doings from the cultures we must strive to understand:

Twenty Syrians were killed and over 60 injured in a failed Scud missile test carried out by Syria, Iran and North Korea in May, Japan's Kyodo News reported on Friday.

One of two missiles had apparently strayed off its course due to a technical malfunction, landing in a civilian populated area in a town on the Syrian-Turkish border. The victims were all civilians.

The incident was part of a botched attempt to test a new short-range ballistic missile developed together by the three countries, the report said.

COMMENT:  Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see.  Just technical development by people responding to BUSH (!!).

Why, one conversation with Barack Obama and they'll beat those missiles into whatever the Koran says you beat missiles into.  Maybe armored burkas.

We are still not sufficiently alarmed about the technical progress being made by rogue states.  It's something that happens behind the headlines, but it's going on 24 hours a day, and we are the ultimate target.

August 15, 2009