This is basically a secondhand report in the Jerusalem Post of an original article in the NYT that I was unable to find.
The United States and Israel were in discussions over whether Israel should take out Syrian weapons facilities as the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad falters, The New York Times reported Thursday.
According to the report, which cited two administration officials, the United States is opposed to such an attack "because of the risk that it would give Mr. Assad an opportunity to rally support against Israeli interference."
The whole thing's at the link; they wring their hands that no matter what we do things will get worse, and also say that Assad is going to fall in the near-term. One thing they don't really want to talk about, I suspect, and can't even talk about how they don't want to talk about it... the current US regime got into office by accusing its opponents of lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction for a massive five-year election cycle. And now Hezbollah is about to gain unsupervized control over a weapons stockpile, much of which The New Establishment has spent the last decade saying doesn't exist. |