JB notes itâs 50 yrs since spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam, US clean-up plans; quotes op-eds in NYT & WP, 8/18, by Dennis Ross & Israeli Amos Yadlin, of AIPACâs Wash Inst., telling Obama to send more weapons, bunker busters, etc., assure Israel US will back it up militarily after Iran attack; Yadlin says he must say so in Israel; of PNAC successor, FPIâa resource papers advocating US intervene in Syria; Obamaâs warning to Syria re its chemical weapons means he got message; paper calling for US troops out of ME by new Egyptian army chief; updates contract talks between grocery bigs and workers.