This was a great read. It gave me a lot of insight on how the big decisions were made and some of the motivations of the key players in Bush's second term. I v

This was a great read. It gave me a lot of insight on how the big decisions were made and some of the motivations of the key players in Bush's second term. I very much liked how Bush let this play out. He basically allowed Israel to take care of its own business while letting Rice develop a plausible UN solution that he knew would be unacceptable to Israel in case it became public and blew up in our faces. For the US it was a total win. The reactor is gone without direct US military action, Israel was appeased and we got plausible deniability and the ability to look like the good guys if it all went sour.