LOS ANGELES – Revelations in former President George W. Bush’s recently published memoirs show that he declined an Israeli request to destroy Syria’s secret nuclear reactor in the spring of 2007. While the revelation may appear merely to be a historical footnote, more profoundly it raises new uncertainty about whether Israel now thinks that it can rely on the United States to apply military force to stop Iran’s nuclear program should diplomacy fail.
洛杉矶——前任总统乔治·W·布什不久前出版的回忆录披露2007年春他曾拒绝了以色列摧毁叙利亚秘密核反应堆的要求。虽然这则消息似乎仅仅是历史的注脚，却深刻凸显了外交努力失败后以色列能否依赖美国采取军事行动阻止伊朗核计划的新的不确定结果。 叙利亚这则插曲表明以色列不能依赖美国，也就是说以色列可能再次决定单独行动，不过这次是摧毁伊朗核设施。