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

[MADem]

172. It depends entirely on where the weapons are located.

If they are stored in a remote bunker, a bunker buster could incinerate them before any CWs are dispersed.

If they're stored under Primary School Number 20, then that's a different issue and a different tack would have to be employed--like taking out airfields, one by one, until the UN is allowed in to monitor a disposal program.

When people are bullies, you bully back until they cry UNCLE.

Also, we wouldn't be using "air power" here--we'd be using MISSILE power, assuming we can locate the caches. It's a distinction and a difference.

Dempsey is doing what any CJCS would do--playing the low expectations game. I know that if the UN asked us to TCB, we'd find a way to make it happen, and even if the end result was a team going in to do an orderly destruction of caches as part of a peacekeeping effort, it wouldn't be OUR boots on the ground--it would be blue helmets, and we'd be a very small minority of that force.