Yes indeed, better late than never.  Former POTUS Bush apparently has seen the light - not a day late and a buck short, alas; but only eight years too late and several trillion dollars short.  But, hey; no one's perfect, we all made mistakes.  [To wit, my typing, most of the time].

According to a report in Ha'aretz, an advance look at former POTUS Bush's upcoming memoirs ["Decision Points"] [no report if they were laboriously printed in crayon], Dubya on several instances refused to heed then-Israeli  PM Ehud Olmert's frantic importunings to bomb suspected Syrian nuclear facilities.  I guess old Ehud was just too busy boodling with both hands for all he was worth to get around to ordering the IDF to do it themselves.  But eventually he did, and there was a mysterious Israeli air attack on Syria, about which the Syrians said little, in late 2007.  Hmmmm?

Anyway, Dubya's reasoning was, again according to the article, that to do so [to bomb Syria on Ehud's say-so]  would be to put the USA in the position of looking like it does Israel's bidding at every turn.

Say it ain't so, former POTUS Dubya!  I mean, where would anyone get an idea like that!  No wonder people never mistook you for a MENSA member or a Nobel Laureate.

i mean, it's just so totally crazy.  The US doing the bidding of Israel?  Pshaw.  You must be pulling my leg!

Amir Oren : "Bush's book should thus be read as a lesson for the future: The Americans cannot appear to be doing Israel's bidding."

I suspect the real lesson yet to be learned  is :  America will continue to do Israel's bidding, we'll just try much, much harder to pretend that we're not. No matter how buck naked an emporer we appear to be in the eyes of the world.

Yeah, that'll fool the arabs, the moslems, the leftists, the intellectuals and a whole bunch of others.

Glad we've gotten that  straightened out at last.

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