Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Crossing the Rubicon

In 49 BC Julius Cesar crossed a stream marking the Italian border. This stream was a boundary and ancient law prohibited a general from crossing this line with his legions.

In doing so Caesar said essentially, “To heck with the law I’m crossing anyway." President Obama did the same thing when he attacked Iran with the STUXNET worm. It was an act of aggression directed against the physical infrastructure of a state. It was no different from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor or the Terrorist attack of 911. It was in violation of a cornerstone of International Law, which prohibits the forceful violation of a nation state’s territorial integrity and destroying physical infrastructure. The President did it for the same reason Caesar did. Because he wanted to and thought he could get away with it.

“…Somebody had crossed the Rubicon,” Hayden observed (Referring to the cyberwar attack on Natanz). “We have a legion on the other side of the river now. .. this is like August 1945, the month the world saw capabilities of a new weapon dropped over Hiroshima.”