Israel Silent on Reports of Bombing Within Syria (dismayed at some calling it premature)

NYT ^ | 10/15/07 | STEVEN ERLANGER

[TigerLikesRooster]

Israel Silent on Reports of Bombing Within Syria

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But he added that a “constellation of interests” between North Korea and Syria could have led Syria to go “a stage further” in its quest for strategic parity and deterrence, by moving beyond its chemical ability into the nuclear realm, “as Iran is doing.”

Noting the pressure on North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program, the general suggested that smuggling some elements of its program to Syria would have allowed the North “to preserve the knowledge it has accumulated and not just throw it away.”

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North Korea’s route to a nuclear weapon was based on plutonium, he said, adding that “North Korea has the technology, and its approach to life showed that technology was something to be traded.”

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Israeli analysts, meanwhile, expressed surprise at reports that some American officials considered the Israeli airstrike to have been premature.

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“The one lesson that Israel has learned from the Iranian experience is that if you don’t take care of something like this at the very initial stages, you’re going to have a bigger problem later on.”

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[TigerLikesRooster]

I wonder what those people, who complain that the air strike was premature, will say when the reactor has become operational. I think I know the answer: it’s Bush’s fault.

[Army Air Corps]

Pingaroo.

[Paisan]

considered the Israeli airstrike to have been premature

These must be the same people who labeled Israel’s action against Hamas to be “disproportionate”...

[SevenofNine]

OH classic I wonder if Chia Pet feel roaney after that smackdown

[txhurl]

Check.

[dighton]

“The one lesson that Israel has learned from the Iranian experience is that if you don’t take care of something like this at the very initial stages, you’re going to have a bigger problem later on.”

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

— III King Henry VI.

[tessalu]

Israel has had more experience with terrorism than the USA, so Condoleza Rice needs to have more respect for the intelligence of Israel. She is a proven looser.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for the ping.

[SunkenCiv]

Israeli analysts, meanwhile, expressed surprise at reports that some American officials considered the Israeli airstrike to have been premature... "The one lesson that Israel has learned from the Iranian experience is that if you don't take care of something like this at the very initial stages, you're going to have a bigger problem later on."

[ßuddaßudd]

Well said !