Masterful! Just the way John Kerry planned it!
If you say so.
From your link:
yah, they’re collaborating the hell out of it. Assad is Putin’s personal sock monkey and he’s somehow not cooperating.
And it’s now May. Are all of the chemical weapons out of Syria?
The actual deadline is June 3O and there is only 8% left.
June 30 what? So the United Nations made a mistake when they declared that Syria missed the deadline for removing all CW out of the country?
As opposed to the previous actual deadline of April 30 and the target figure of 0%.
Okay, I’ll be back in July and I’ll ask the same question.
I don’t have to wait for you:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0EY1DH20140623?feedType=RSS&irpc=932
Who is upset that ISI(S/L) won’t be getting their hands on any CW from the arsenal that Syria used to have.
Rachel Maddow is on this great achievement. Good for her
Syria has removed 100 percent of declared chemicals. Who in here believe Assad gave up all his chemical weapons?
Add to that from the same article: " she expected work would start within three months on a process to destroy 12 production sites and tunnels linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program. "
So Assad has had all this time to hide the weapons he didn’t declare along with reconstituting his production facilities somewhere else. Or just buy more some from Putin.
Well, I won’t say this has been or definitely is a complete victory. But I have to admit I didn’t think we’d even get this far.
Do you have intelligence that leaves no doubt that the Assad regime is concealing some of the most lethal weapons ever devised from OPCW inspectors?
Thank you. But what do you mean by ‘complete victory’?
I wonder if Assad feels weaker or stronger today for several reasons:
(1) Iraqi Shiite militias that have been fighting on Assad’s behalf (perhaps 20,000) have gone back to Iraq to fight ISIS there.
(2) ISIS is bringing US supplied weapons across the vanishing border of Iraq and Syria. To be used against him. They also have a billion dollar boost in cash from looted banks in Iraq. Plus they may have taken Iraq’s biggest oil refinery and could use it to fuel their vehicals to be used in the asssuit on Danascus.
(3) Assad has no chemical weapons to keep secure as an excuse that his regime cannot be allowed to fall. Eight months ago that to the west and Israel that was a justifiable concern. How do you transfer the responsibility of safeguarding a CW arsenal if the regime in control is taken down along with its military chain of command?
As others have said, I still have concerns that Assad may have chemical weapons he didn’t declare or may plan on rebuilding his stock of them.
do you have any intelligence at all regarding the whereabouts of the weapons in the first place?
OPCW is the best source of intelligence at this point but there is also no intelligence from any country coming forward disputing that there is any CW left behind in Syria
You are basing your conclusion on nothing at all.
OPCW intelligence is whatever Assad told them. Your conclusion is based on Assad’s word.
But there is a possibility that Assad has ordered the entire arsenal destroyed. On the other hand there is not even the slightest possibility that you know anything about the existence of concealed CW one way or the other.
From Ravenman’s link: (“She added that every effort must be made to achieve the 30 June 2014 deadline set by OPCW Executive Council Decisions and the UN Security Council, by which time the full arsenal is to be destroyed.”)
Its common to set several interim deadlines to monitor progress toward the final deadline in this case that always was June 30.
Why? 1300 Tons of CW have been removed from a war zone with blood thirsty killer terrorists establishing their caliphate right there. A master stroke by Obama to use the threat of force to disarm a tyrant of CW without sactificing the lives of our troops.
Had Bush been wise enough to disarm Iraq through international law just think how many people would not be dead.