Israel Siezes Nuclear Material from Syria

North Korean Missiles

The deafening silence from the Arab countries following the Israeli airstrike in Syria is now explained - or so it would seem. Unlike the United States, who by many accounts let tons of WMD slide through to Syria from Iraq prior to the current war, Israel "...seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a raid on a secret military site in Syria before the Israel Air Force allegedly bombed it this month...".

To have siezed the material would have been a coup for Israelis, allowing them to properly address the threat, assess the state of nuclear development on their Northern border and to prepare for appropriate contingencies. The situation in the region is grave, if the transfer of nuclear material to rogue regimes continues unabated.

On the bright side, many North Korean ballistic missile technicians and military scientists were killed in the raid. It can only be hoped that many more of them and many of their friends and collaborators will join them soon. Of particular concern is whether or not the Chinese have any hand in current escalations. If so, things will become complicated before we unravel them.

We may yet witness World War of a scale we've not yet imagined in our lifetime. If we follow Democratic advice and hide our heads in the sand on these issues, the cataclysm could be unthinkable.