布什政府也因此躲避与北朝鲜和伊朗的军事对峙，尽管美国对以色列1981年空袭伊拉克的奥西拉克反应堆表示赞赏，因为那次行动使萨达姆的核计划延迟了几年之久。
This is why the Bush administration has shied away from military confrontations with North Korea and Iran, despite its veneration of Israel’s air strike on Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981, which set back Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program by several years.