On OpinionJournal, L. Gordon Crovitz recalls an earlier preemptiveunilateral attack in the Middle East which raised the ire of most of the world, the "United Nations," the American media and many in the Republican Executive branch. A couple of small excerpts:
Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Likud allies, such as Ariel Sharon, had to stiffen the spines of Labor Party and intelligence officials who feared the repercussions of such a raid. "If I have a choice of being popular and dead or unpopular and alive," Mr. Sharon told fellow cabinet members, "I choose being alive and unpopular."
If the administration's official reaction was to condemn, the president's private reaction was to admire: "What a terrific piece of bombing," Mr. Reagan said upon seeing photos of the reactor site.
I think it is likely that, again, in the passage of time, griping will be replaced with gratitude.
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