tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post1108921971360200079..comments2024-02-19T11:10:16.893-08:00Comments on Brown Moses Blog: A Chemical Weapons Specialist On Syria's Chemical Weapon Transport IssuesBrown Moseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17562126209980810351noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-41574843500178123072013-12-06T18:28:24.879-08:002013-12-06T18:28:24.879-08:00
Some of the CW sites ( to be inspected) were batt...<br />Some of the CW sites ( to be inspected) were battle damaged according to the UN/OPCW. The insurgents were in the vicinity.<br /><br />What does that tell us? So, maybe release a few nuns, quit beheading people for a bit, confidence building measures. Whatever. Greighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024997380441749707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-19568336946055314902013-12-06T02:49:25.911-08:002013-12-06T02:49:25.911-08:00As far as getting UK forces to Syria in the next c...As far as getting UK forces to Syria in the next couple of weeks is concerned: last night's storm and widespread flooding disaster is more than just a political distraction and will make it difficult to mobilise large amounts of equipment for any purpose other than disaster relief for a while.Medawarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05119173935699236303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-23205949783784045952013-12-05T05:19:01.212-08:002013-12-05T05:19:01.212-08:00"...the International Community is being held..."...the International Community is being held to ransom by the Assad’s Chemical Weapons..."<br /><br />As soon as I see this phrasing, I assume the author has some connection with Israel. As soon as the international community accused them of doing the same with their nuclear weapons ("Help us or *everyone* in the Middle East dies"), this suddenly became the phrasing for Saddam Husain's fabricated threat and the phrasing used for Ghadaffi's supposed threat. Odd, since the most obvious direct threat from those weapons was to Israel, not to anyone else. That's the case in Syria. <br /><br />There is *nobody* in the U.S. that sees any threat from Syrian chemical weapons in Assad's hands except for our un-trusted, bribed politicians. If anyone would use them outside of Syria, it would be the same salafist extremists that the west is supporting now. The only nation that is paranoid about them now - and probably rightfully so - is Israel.<br /><br />Rushing in to civilian-killing activities like 'regime change' to remove CWs hasn't turned out so well for the U.S. In Iraq, we didn't even know which weapons were chemical weapons and ended up poisoning thousands of western troops when they were destroyed. In Libya, we killed Ghadaffi and pretty much let thousands of tanks of his CWs sit unguarded - in the open - in the desert for months. Plenty of opportunities for salafi extremists to truck off several tons for themselves.<br /><br />Bretton-Gordon's suggestion that "...the Opposition in all its guises must guarantee safe passage of the CW to the Port..." is absolutely preposterous. They are at war with each other, and the best-armed and best-trained are not Syrians and don't plan on showing up to Geneva II anyway. They have clearly stated so. <br /><br />If the UK can be convinced to send it's people to die in Syria to protect a convoy, then go for it. I expect the U.S. media to try to whip up a frenzy here supporting U.S. intervention. Trouble is, so does the U.S. public (and a good part of the military) and they already said NO. They are not going to feel some new sense of urgency simply because Obama moved the red line out a little further. <br /><br />The situation is precarious in the U.S. - citizens will not send their sons and daughters to die to protect paranoid Israel or do the leg-work for Bandar's conquest of Syria. Obama is a half-step from being impeached if he tries, and nobody is listening to our congress. The only way you're going to get average U.S. citizens to support any Syrian action is at the end of a barrel of a gun. Spinning stories on CNN doesn't work, anymore.PavewayIVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17329924099308073556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-66499931181474435132013-12-04T13:03:11.088-08:002013-12-04T13:03:11.088-08:00Short article from the BBC with video interview of...Short article from the BBC with video interview of Faisal Mekdad: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25191673" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25191673</a><br /><br />Press release from NATO which states "[NATO] stand[s] ready to consider further assistance to the OPCW-UN Joint Mission if requested": <a href="http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_105470.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_105470.htm</a>Noha307https://www.blogger.com/profile/00370569155512909375noreply@blogger.com