The Bush Method

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One of the prisms through which those of a certain age view the Middle East is the events of June 7, 1981, when a squadron of Israeli F-16 warplanes wheeled out of the afternoon skies over Baghdad and destroyed the atomic-bomb-making facility at Osirak. The event is widely remembered for Israel’s daring and skill, for removing the threat of a nuclear-armed Iraq from the world stage -

- and for the howls of diplomatic outrage that greeted the event, egged on by an editorial in the New York Times that derided Prime Minister Begin for making a “sneak attack” and called the raid “an act of inexcusable and short-sighted aggression... [snip]

For those who came up during this period, it has been extraordinarily satisfying to watch the adroitness with which President Bush has dealt with Israel’s decision to send a new generation of warplanes to destroy a new enemy reactor under construction, this time one that was being constructed with North Korean help in Syria...

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