The Democrats’ arms-control agenda is a failure

Washington Post ^ | 10 Apr, 2017 | Marc A. Thiessen

[MtnClimber]

In January, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, declared: “We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.” Obama, she boasted, was able to “deal with the threat of chemical weapons by virtue of . . . diplomacy” and “in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished.”

Tell that to the children of Idlib, their lifeless eyes dilated from exposure to an apparent nerve agent that the Obama administration assured us the Assad regime no longer possessed.

“I’m very proud of this moment,” Obama declared last year of his decision not to enforce his red line and turn instead to Russia to get him out of his pledge with a face-saving agreement for Syria to give up its chemical weapons — one we now know President Bashar al-Assad violated with impunity.

[MtnClimber]

A stinging story from the Washington ComPost!

[Kickass Conservative]

Is Marc trying to get himself Fired from the WaPoo? LOL

[Paladin2]

Hussein needs to stay on the DL...

[Yogafist]

their lifeless eyes dilated from exposure to an apparent nerve agent

Their "lifeless" eyes were dilated because they were, lifeless. they wouldn't be any less dilated if they were shot, hit by a car, or died of old age.

[BradtotheBone]

They should write a story about another DEMOCRAT ADMINISTRATION promising our other adversary to give up nuclear arms development in exchange for two light water reactors.

[mazda77]

Ironically, when looking at a nighttime satellite image their justification for letting them have nuke power for electricity was a dismal failure as well. Comparing images of that time and today shows a net loss of lights. Better yet, they have a huge supply of coal that they export.

[AndyJackson]

The writer was a speech writer for W. W didn't really help a lot here either, and in fact created the ME instability that he spent his administration dealing with while taking the eye off of NK. There is a lot of blame to go around.

It took the present insaniac Trump to man up and enforce our longstanding policy to deter the use of WMDs by - ready for this - dropping bombs on the proliferators who use or threaten to use them. It is a really simple strategy, as all effective strategies are.

Trump could not have sent a plainer and clearer signal than he sent in the Syria attack, but too many folks here either ignorantly or deliberately miss this point. WE DO NOT TOLERATE THE USE OF WMDs. It's a lynchpin of national security strategy and has been since Curtis LeMay commanded SAC.

[JimRed]

The arms control of greatest interest to the left is controlling the arms of the American population.