A significant achievement of the human race: It succeeded in banning chemical weapons.

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69. I never said that it was ONLY about chemical attacks. You claimed that.

I said Kerry and Obama were NOT part of the push for war in Syria since 1998, and that there is plenty of proof of the exact opposite, especially with Kerry's 8 years of efforts with Assad because he SAW the push the hawks and neocons were making that targeted Syria.

Why is that so difficult for you to acknowledge?

Obama and Kerry aren't being driven to war by the hawks, but are striving for an outcome where Assad is not the one they are relying on to bring Syria to the diplomatic solutions. He lost it. He was almost there before the Arab Spring and he lost his grip.

Why does it HAVE to be more to you? Obama, and, especially Kerry fought off the full scale war on Syria for 8 years, why do you ASSUME they are going to give in to one now?

They know who wants one. They know that THEY want a more measured approach. They DO know that Assad has been losing his mind for the last 2 years.

Kerry knows more about Assad than anyone else, nadin - even more than Robert Parry - because Kerry bothered to reach out to Assad in ways that no one else would.....in order to thwart those screaming for war.

No one puts Kerry's views in CONTEXT because it is easier to jerk one's knee reflexively than to take the time to discover what corpmedia certainly failed in its duty to report.

This OP was about the human race and what it achieved. That so many dismiss chemical weapon ban as unworthy of defense is a reality that we all should face because we were brought to that conclusion, whether you admit it or not because of decades of machinations by Bushes and their international cronies. Bushes ACHIEVED that, didn't they? Now no Democratic US president can interfere with crimes against innocents because of the Bushes and their legacy.