I didn’t make up the idea nor get it straight from Assad. I read it in the MSM. If you weren’t so snarky so often I’d actually do the work to find the reference for you.

No, you misunderstood what I said. Syria never intended to create a nuclear weapon. It wanted to APPEAR as if it was doing so. To go through the motions to make the U.S. & Israel THINK it was creating such a program so it could give them pause to consider that it would be better to negotiate than consider a Syria that went nuclear.

At best, Israel prob. bombed an installation that was a nuclear Potemkin Village.

So if this true, by blowing up the installation Israel weakened Syria’s bargaining position, which is what I said.

You may think a dirty bomb is a possibility but it is at best a distant possibility. The complexity of building a nuclear weapon is not an ‘assumption’ it is a reality. If were merely an untested assumption then Iran would have one already. Look how long it took India, Pakistan, N. Korea & any number of other nuclear powers to achieve their capability. And what particular expertise do you have that nuclear experts–who’ve weighed in on this subject & disagreed w. you–don’t have??

It is far more likely that Assad used the nuclear installation as N. Korea did–as a bargaining chip & that it never really intended to seriously pursue nuclear technology. Assad built the facility to pressure Israel & the U.S. into realizing if they didn’t bargain w. him that he could pursue the N. Korea route & go nuclear. This theory has been published in the MSM & I think it’s highly credible.

“A year or 2 at most???!” What planet are you on? Iran would have the bomb if that were the case. Or are Iranian scientists less capable than Japanese, Argentinian, Swiss?

Bombing the Syrian installation wasn’t a ’service to humanity.’ It was service to Ehud Olmert & the IDF’s popularity ratings which had taken a severe beating in the past 2 yrs.

Not at all. You seem to be forgetting that Israel actually occupied sovereign Lebanese land for 18 yrs. & before that assassinated Palestinian leaders in Beirut almost at will. Not to mention Shebaa Farms which Israel concedes it has no claim to but so far refuses to return to Lebanon or Syria (one of which actually HAS sovereignty depending on who you ask).