Did I just stop by DU and find people PUSHING for war against Syria?

[MADem]

88. Not always--that would only be the case if we had an asset close to the throne, and

you are also assuming that the asset is able to communicate easily when that's not always the case.

And we would not be "part of it" even if we knew what was happening. One can know that a weapon is being deployed but not know where--and there's no way to prevent the weapon from being fired if one doesn't know where the people doing the firing are or when they're planning on doing the firing. Just because a weapon leaves the bunker doesn't mean it's going to be deployed immediately--it could have been staged at an intermediate location for some time.

Again, there is a UN weapons inspection team on the ground. They have experience with this kind of thing. I think we should allow them to dig in and do their work and come up with some conclusions, and if steps need to be taken to prevent this shit from happening again, let's get to work.

Frankly, al Assad is a very cunning person. What better way to play "What, who me?" than to invite a UN team in, do a little gassing, and then say "Well of course it wasn't me....see? See? Someone's trying to make me look bad!"

It'll be interesting to see if those deployed weapon canisters are of Russian manufacture....

Frankly I don't give a shit who "owns" the chemical weapons. My interest is in ensuring they don't get deployed again.