Perhaps he's focusing everyone's attention on Iran only for the ultimate purpose of taking out Syria and Iran together. Imagine what it looks like for Dems who went to Syria to suck up to Assad if Bush invades and takes out Syria and discovers Saddam's WMDs?
Maybe the Israelis just took out the obstacle ahead of US invasion.
What sort of a political coup do you think that would be? Exposing the Iran-Syria-North Korea axis, destroying it, and with it a main military armament cash-paying customer for North Korea? Outcome: a Middle East under US and allied influence stretching from Lebanon through Sryia, Iraq, Iran, all the way to Afghanistan.
Is the successful invasion of Syria what it will take for the largely pro-Western Iranians to rise up against the mullahs, and take them down themselves perhaps?
I suspect that the bombimg of Syria by the Israelis on September 6 is probably more significant for what the press doesn't know about than what it thinks it does.
A lot of Bush's detractors might be eating some humble pie before this is all over. As a foreign policy victory it would rank up there with Reagan's castration of the Soviet Union, and would reverse foreign policy blunders of Democrats stretching back more than 50 years.
I can’t remember the date we heard that N Korea had supposedly agreed to abandon its nuclear program. Wasn’t it shortly after this Sept 6th raid?
I DO remember that the announcement came from NK alone, no other country would confirm it. There seemed to be a lot of scurrying around for several days before the agreement was confirmed, but in a blurry way.
I think maybe N Korea’s unilateral announcement was a ruse, an effort to salvage what they could from the talks before the news of their proliferation came out. THey knew, once the world learned about the Syrian raid, NK’s negotiating position would be zilch. After the raid, they tried to jump ahead of the bad news and “announce” results that had not been granted at the talks.
The other parties’ response was vague and note that it has not been touted by the president or anyone else as some kind of “breakthrough”. Something’s going on behind the scenes at those talks. And I think it involves a lot more than our simply “rewarding” NK for disarmament.