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In reply to the discussion: This Modern World: And Away We Go -- - Nothing Says "We Care" Like A Tomahawk Missile Strike [View all]HumansAndResources
(229 posts)A UN Inspector admitted this. If they have some CW, they can get more - either from the Libyan stockpiles, from Saudi Arabia, etc.
Also, Assad was in a strong position - winning and taking back territory - about to go to peace-negotiations with the upper hand when this occurred - just as inspectors arrived. It is Very, Very Unlikely Assad would choose that moment to use CW.
OTOH, the "rebels" (Transnational Corporate Terrorist Proxy Army of the Middle East and Caucasuses) were loosing and needed a "bailout". These are suicide-bomber-types, trained in Saudi-funded Maddrasas, so quite capable of a "human sacrifice" or 1000 to get their way. All the "good ones" who die go straight to heaven, after all. We have to remember that THESE are the people who inherit Syria if "our" (sic) "rebels" win.
As to Moral Authority question above: Correct, the USA, a long-time supporter of CW-using regimes, who has lied to the world about who used CW before (Iran-Iraq war) and France, the former colonist of the area, have no moral authority what so ever in this matter regardless of what Assad actually does do, though all we know are the allegations of his known-liar enemies.