US BOLSTERING OF SUNNI REGIMES NOW GETTING STUPID - NUKE TECH TO JORDAN EDITION

The country is historically unstable, subject to invasion by its more militant Arab neighbors, and 70 percent Palestinian. What could possibly go wrong:

The United States has signed an accord with Jordan aimed at supporting the peaceful development of the kingdom's nascent nuclear program, the U.S. Embassy said Sunday. The agreement comes at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's controversial nuclear program, which the U.S. suspects is a cover for weapons development - a charge Tehran denies. Jordan and several other Sunni Arab countries have recently announced plans to develop peaceful nuclear programs. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and Jordanian Minister for Scientific Research Khaled Toukan signed Sunday's memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of a nuclear energy summit in Vienna.

No worries though - it's not like sub-weapons grade uranium can be packed into a dirty bomb. Or a suicide belt. And it's not like large swaths of their population are pathologically anti-Semitic.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]