CONDI OPPOSED DESTRUCTION OF JIHAD NUKE FACILITY

Hey Condappeaser, perhaps if you destabilize a a unstable region ...... you'll stabilize it. :)

Jan sent this piece and added, "She is so screwed up that she thinks a nuclear Syria is not destabilizing but stopping them is.  Anyone want to guess why America hasn’t taken on Iran’s nuclear plans?"

Condoleezza Rice opposed Israel’s attack on Syrian nuclear site  Times online

A MYSTERIOUS Israeli military strike on a suspected nuclear site in Syria last month was opposed by Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, because she feared it would destabilise the region, according to a report this weekend.

Rice persuaded the Israelis to delay their operation, but not to call it off, after US officials were presented with “jaw-dropping” evidence of Syrian nuclear activity, the report said.

The Sunday Times revealed two weeks ago that Israeli commandos had seized samples of nuclear material, said to be of North Korean origin, during a daring raid on a Syrian military facility to prove to the Americans that an air attack was essential.

According to ABC News, Rice led the opposition inside the Bush administration to the Israeli strike, persuading them to shelve initial plans to hit the Syrian facility in the week of July 14.

The nuclear samples seized by ground commandos remain unidentified, but defence and intelligence sources in Washington believe they may have been connected to uranium enrichment.

Ilan Berman, a Middle East expert at the American Foreign Policy Council, said: “The consensus is that Israel struck a nuclear facility and the probability is that it was linked to enriching uranium.”

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[john jay]

pamela:

she is a twit.

may a kind providence see fit to replace her with john bolton after the coming election.

vote early, vote often.

spend your money in support of john mccain as though your life depended upon it, because it does.

john jay

[Francis W. Porretto]

The notion that "stability" is a geopolitical value has to be discarded if American foreign policy is ever to become rational again. "Stability," divorced from other considerations, is no more desirable than "change." But a permanent diplomatic institution instinctively promotes "stability" to the top of its list of things to be striven for and defended -- because like all bureaucracies staffed by people in tenured positions who get the same compensation regardless of performance, its employees are more interested in minimizing their labors than in actually accomplishing anything.

Abolish the State Department!