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jazzimov

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9. NO. Destroying any advantage.
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 10:02 PM
Sep 2013

Actually, we were lucky because the pro-Assad forces didn't see an advantage from using these weapons. Unfortunately, they will probably assume that they weren't used properly and try to use them again, this time effectively.

What SOMEONE has to do is to demonstrate that using such weapons is NOT in their best interests, so that they do not use them again.

I would prefer that the UNSC does this - but Russia's veto power doesn't make that likely. SOMEONE needs to do SOMETHING!

We are the world's last superpower - if we don't take a stand, who will?

NOT to take a stand on civil unrest - that is their problem. But when the existing administration goes so far as to use weapons that have been banned in 98% of the world.......

That is no longer THEIR problem, it's now OUR problem. In truth, it's the WORLD's problem, but some will step up and some may not. We have to step up.

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