Pakistan and Syria attacks by the US. What is the deal?

Is anyone else ticked off about this. Why, now, are we launching corss-border attacks into countries that we are not "at war" with or that we are not "in defense" of? Why is the government not even acknowledging these attacks? This is the sickest move on part of the Bush administration. Is there some immediate threat to the safety of American people right now? or is this some attempt to stir up a global conflict for purely political reasons? I'm disgusted.