So Happy Together
April 24th, 2008This is why I like our relationship with Israel:
The White House says Syria was covertly building a nuclear reactor, with clandestine North Korean assistance, capable of producing plutonium. A statement from the White House, and an unusual release of photographic intelligence, followed briefings for members of Congress about what the White House says were Syria’s illicit nuclear activities. VOA’s Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill.
Calling the issue one of great international concern, the White House says North Korea helped Syria develop and build the reactor, which the White House says was probably damaged beyond repair in an Israeli air strike last September. “We have good reason to believe,” the statement continues, “that the reactor was not intended for peaceful purposes, was carefully hidden from view, and that Syria’s government moved quickly to bury evidence of its existence after the Israeli strike,” in what the White House statement calls a cover-up.
We work in conjunction with that government, but as Osirak and the Syrian reactor demonstrate, we are willing to work separately and together when appropriate. Besides the British and the Canadians, I do not think we have a greater ally.