If you believe that Syria is going to put

[Are_grits_groceries]

all of their chemical weapons under international control, I have swamps and bridges for sale priced just for you.

Assad is up to no good along with Putin.
We will happily go along with this to save face and declare everything all good. It's international hijinks at the highest levels.

[morningfog]

1. I am not convicnced that anyone involved is serious about this offer.

I can see it accelerating a march to war.

[cali]

14. right. when you analyze it, it looks unlikely to solve anything.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Deja vu to 2003

[LittleBlue]

3. They suggest putting the weapons under international control

You know what international control would be under the Putin plan? Some unarmed UN observers and the Russian military.

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. still hanging on to the Obama = Bush meme are we?

[David__77]

7. They are not very similar at all.

People who say that are wrong. There are similarities between all media/government lead-ups to foreign aggression, but that doesn't make the administrations similar.

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. thank you...that's one of the stupidest memes I have heard of late..

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. No

I don't trust any of the players in this hot mess. The Middle East is a nest of various groups with their own agendas. The international community hops in and out as they please.

You are the one jumping around and claiming I am equating Obama with Bush. If I meant that, I would say that. This is Syria not Iraq.

[NuclearDem]

5. I really honestly want to believe it's true.

I mean, this sort of action is exactly what I've been hoping for, some nonmilitary way to get rid of the CWs. And that Russia is at least giving the outward appearance of being onboard with it is at least a good sign.

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. Then are you going to praise Obama if it happens?

[NuclearDem]

12. For what credit he deserves, yes.

[VanillaRhapsody]

17. If it happens he deserves alot

I think I remember an old American adage..."Walk softly and carry a big stick"

[cali]

15. what makes you think it's going to happen?

[VanillaRhapsody]

23. What makes you think it won't?

[cali]

26. uh, I wrote an op on that, dearie. And as YOU posted in it several times

you know that.

Now c'mon, answer the question. You can do it! Just try thinking instead of emoting.

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. and if they do "dearie"?

Russia's ONLY base in the Middle East is in Syria....and they buy Russia's weapons. In fact they owe Russia money for those arms...So Putin is just trying to protect thier investment there. But of course no one pays attention to

[Aerows]

22. I'll be the first organizing the ticker tape parade

and I mean that seriously.

[Puzzledtraveller]

6. I agree with you up to we will go along

The strikes are going to happen, the Russia/Syrian gambit will be mostly brushed off. The vote in the senate is scheduled. I think it will pass.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

11. so you are doubling down "even if Obama wins--he loses?"

nice touch. If we go to war, Obama is a criminal thug. If this episode avoids war, Obama is a naive child among international heroes.

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. I didn't say or mean ANY of that.

Your post is a twee little tale you made out of whole cloth from the recesses of your mind.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. There's hundreds of tons of the stuff dispersed at seventy to eighty different sites/nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. and 78% of the worlds chemical weapons have already been destroyed...

your point is?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. your point is?

There's hundreds of tons of the stuff dispersed at seventy to eighty different sites/nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

20. that the world has managed such a feat already over these weapons

what other weapon has EVER had that on its resume? What other weapon has ever been abandoned so readily because of outrage over its use? THAT is how important it will be....but Yes...it takes time to eliminate them.....it will take us to 2017 (the U.S. you have to stipulate that now it seems) to eliminate all of ours.

[KoKo]

21. How do we know that for sure? You'd need people on the ground inspecting

and we don't know that isn't an inflated number from US...

[VanillaRhapsody]

24. You too Koko?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Here's a link to wikipedia

If you distrust wikipedia you can verify their information by following the one hundred or so footnotes.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

[KoKo]

28. It's probable that he moved them around though since that report...

or consolidated them? I'm hopeful that if Assad is serious and since Russia proposed this that the Russians would work to make sure the sites are known to UN inspectors. It would look bad for Russia to have proposed the UN come in and secure and then have Assad hold out on them ...and use them later.

If the rebels have some of them...then that's going to be more difficult, though.

Thanks for link.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. I'm sure he did...

My only point(s) were he has a lot of stuff and it''s all over the place.