The devastating price of appeasement. Posted on 04/21/2014 5:39:36 AM PDT by dignitasnews
French leaders announced that there are significant reasons to believe that Syrian forces continue to use chemical weapons on their own citizenry in its effort to crack down on opposition targets.
Appearing on the Europe 1 radio show this weekend, French President Francois Hollande indicated his government had "a few elements of information" that government forces in Syria are behind recent chlorine gas attacks in at least three towns, although he stressed that at the moment concrete proof was still lacking.
While French intelligence officials work to substantiate the claim, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabuis told the radio station that they have received "indications" of the attacks. While noting they were "less significant" that those taking place near Damascus in August of last year, they appeared to be very deadly.
The devastating price of appeasement.
Since the horrific attacks in August, French intelligence has maintained close communications with Syrian opposition forces and believes information will come forward shortly to verify these fears. The attacks in Damascus killed nearly 1,400 people in rebel strongholds near of the capital, prompting US President Barack Obama to threaten a military strike against Assad. US Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated a deal with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavroy which called on Syria to have destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical weapons by June, 2014.
The UN Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced Saturday that they were confident Syria had destroyed approximately 80 percent of its chemical arsenal, but sources concede the Bashar al-Assad regime remains weeks behind the agreed upon implementation schedule.
Given the recent tensions between the United States and Russia over the latter nations violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and the continuous flouting of international law by aggressor nations, skeptics around the globe have openly questioned if the UN can be counted on to enforce the agreement.
Putin's recent action in the Ukraine furthermore give cause to doubt Russia's intentions and ability to serve as an honest broker regarding Syria, a long time Russian ally. In an ever brewing global chess match, western allies continues to stay a step behind as an anxious world worries that their reluctance to exert their strength will further embolden a growing "axis of evil" who have continued to violate international law with impunity.
It was Irish statesman Edmund Burke who was famously quoted as saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
It’s been already proven that it was the rebels who were using it both times.
If the French believe this, I suggest they do something about it.
Assad wouldn’t dare do that.....not after Obama warned him not to!
its the rebel who’s doing it
Stop falling for propagandas to get us involved. How many lies have the media told in regards to former Yugoslavia which turned out to be false
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