So, the US/UN consortium had this teed up for use.
The statement is “against outside foreign aggression”, and does not provide anything other than verbal cover for the “rebels” having gotten some of either these WMDs (which of course the dems will never acknowledge came from Iraq/Saddam, but they did) OR we supplied them to the rebels (a chilling possibility to “wag the dog” on command).
As bad as it is, the Russians make sense— there are none but civilians in the claims of the use of chem weapons. No dead rebels— interesting enough on its own. This is the kind of thing that has been done in hundreds of past “civil” wars (like in the Balkans, or Katyn Forest in Poland). So we are being sold a bill of goods, with the idiots at the UN as rubber stamp artists. There is no impetus for us to be their other than once again the liberal chicken hawks and their rino pals in the defense industry (McCain pimping for them with Graham). The “rebels” ARE al-qaeda— and there is nothing to support us helping them. Disgusting.
I wonder whether the President misjudged Assad’s willingness to use chemical weapons. Certainly responding so forcefully to the first incursion of US trained troops would have quite a chilling effect on the further deployment of these troops into the area.
That there were civilian casualties in a chemical attack around Damascus would not be surprising given that gas is very hard to deploy accurately. Perhaps I am too cynical, but just because only civilian bodies were ‘found’ doesn’t mean they were the only ones killed. Newspaper accounts said the area was cleaned up before the UN even got to the location.
However, now we stand at the razor’s edge - is the US and NATO going to openly attack Syria, whose military is well armed and disciplined (in contrast to Libya)? Iran has already made known they will come to Syria’s aid if they are attacked.
It’s a sorry mess and BOTH political parties are up to their ears in it. You’re right. It is disgusting.