If It's So Important, Why Delay?

The news "breaking" about the nuclear facilities found in the Syrian desert is in fact not so new - the news that the installation destroyed several months ago was suspected to have been a nuclear plant has been known to Washington since the time of the Israeli air raid that destroyed it. There are two types of information: the sensitive kind that isn't released, and the important news that can be used to manipulate the general population, either through fear-mongering or through assurances of peace and well-being. So why, if this information is so important as to be used in the former sense of manipulation, was it hidden? Information concealed can hardly be taken seriously when it is announced that it must be dealt with immediately and given full support after such information has remained under covers for this long. Two conclusions may be drawn from this: either Washington is so incompetent as to have somehow missed the danger that now hangs so ominously over us all, or it was deemed insignificant enough to keep out of sight for a few months. I will make no pretense, after all, every government keeps a good many things from its citizens for this reason or that. However, when news like this surfaces, it appears to be a situation with less gravity than is purported, and seems like another thing ploy to gain support for the ongoing farce in the theatre of the Middle East.

-Modern Diogenes-