Posted on 04/09/2018 2:25:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Four years ago, it almost looked as if chemical attacks on Syrian civilians would stop. “We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” declared then-Secretary of State John Kerry on Meet the Press in 2014. Kerry was referring to Bashar al-Assad’s declared stockpiles of chemical weapons which, under a 2013 deal struck by the Obama administration following a sarin nerve gas attack that brought the U.S. to the brink of striking Syrian government forces, were dismantled and shipped out of the country.
But there were two important and deadly loopholes. The first was that Assad did not declare everything—a reality that Kerry acknowledged publicly, including in a farewell memo to staff, in which he wrote that “unfortunately other undeclared chemical weapons continue to be used ruthlessly against the Syrian people.” The second was that chlorine gas, which has legitimate civilian uses, was not part of the deal. The Syrian American Medical Society and the White Helmets civil-defense group have documented 200 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, many involving chlorine.
The deal, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg wrote at the time, “was not a complete failure, in that [chemical-weapons] stockpiles were indeed removed, but Assad kept enough of these weapons to allow him to continue murdering civilians with sarin gas. The argument that Obama achieved comprehensive WMD disarmament without going to war is no longer, as they say in Washington, operative.”
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“We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” declared then-Secretary of State John Kerry.
Despite its generally far leftist stance, the Atlantic does publish some useful articles from time to time ( under editors Falliows and now Goldberg). It’s one of the few leftie pubs I still thumb through occasionally. Usually pretty well written/ edited too
It will now be on “Lyndon B. Trump” if he chooses to use force in Syria on the basis of jihadist propaganda about chemical weapons attacks.
The purpose of fighting this war for Saudi Arabia and its jihadists opposing Assad in Syria is about Saudi money, power and influence over Western nations.
But the consequences of such a war I see as the derailing of Trump’s presidency and it’s purposes like securing our southern border and the derailing of Brexit in the UK as well.
it’s obvious the latest attack was a false flag
“We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” declared then-Secretary of State John Kerry.
Means , “I have no idea what I’m doing” ,LOL
“We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” declared then-Secretary of State John Kerry.”
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The really amazing part is J Effen Kerry accomplished this feat during his Christmas vacation in Cambodia!
Isn’t this thy guy who served in Vietnam?
President Trump, please declassify and release all verifiable evidence that indicates Assad is using chemical weapons in Syria.
I want to read it and make up my own mind.
I have completely lost confidence in the truthfulness and the motives of your Administration on this issue.
It’s an illustration of Lincoln’s quote about fooling the people. More people are getting wise to the lies, but sadly there are still some of the people who will be fooled all the time.
white helmets are juan mccain’s people. Sorry, I do not trust them
It's like looking for clean sheet in a wad of used toilet paper.
I guess I miss something.
If Assad uses Daisy Cutters to kill 50 kids in Syria, it’s ok, I guess. If he uses Chlorine to kill those 50 kids, it’s now worth exchanging cities with Putin, I guess?
Someone, other than the Neocons here, please explain this.
Pure propaganda....the notion that Assad could remove chemical weapons from areas not under his control is absurd.
The United States occupied Iraq for a decade and didn't remove all the chemical weapons.
LOL, like Archie Bunker said, “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?”
What’s the proof?
Can’t explain it.
We aren’t responsible for what happens in every s-hole country around the world.
They're currently filming it in a Hollywood studio.
I sometimes wonder why the jihadis never try to take out the devils who are actually behind these evil campaigns which slaughter so many women and children? I mean, are there no Libyans left who realize what Hillary dead-soul Clinton did to Libya? Are Muslims unable to see the evil against innocent Muslims which Obama and his hench-ghouls perpetrated? Are Muslims unable to follow the Brennan drone strikes which slaughtered hundreds aiming to kill one suspected terrorist?
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