“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
If it was nuclear, how did they expect to get away with that?
Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Syria Site By WILLIAM J. BROAD and MARK MAZZETTI 21 minutes ago NYT The site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor. More here