A silent warning shot
Claims that Syria may be developing nuclear weapons, possibly in collaboration with North Korea, look highly suspect. Officially, Israel is making no such assertion after its still unexplained air strike in northern Syria earlier this month. The nuclear spectre has been conjured largely by American officials, some of whom famously misdirected similar WMD allegations at Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.
Even Syria's worst enemies have not previously counted it as a serious or current nuclear proliferation risk. President Bashar al-Assad's government is usually portrayed as too weak, too technically deficient, too poor - and perhaps too sensible - to mount such an effort.… Seguir leyendo »