"RAAAIIIIIIID!"
Posted on 09/09/2013 7:32:06 AM PDT by maggief
Blink, er ... Ping.
Thanks, that was what I thought, except without knowing the details. That Putin would lose energy business, that is.
Thank you for explaining this to me.
Kaddafi was terrified into handing his WMD over to us when he saw Bush’s “Shock and Awe.” And you see how well that worked out for him in the long run. I’m sure Assad noticed.
Thanks Maggie
This is the face-saving answer.
Syria gives up a few antiquated gas shells.
0bama says, “Good enough!”
Syria and Al Qaeda in Syria go back to their previously scheduled Civil War.
Everyone clams up.
Then why is the State Department backing down already?
Post #28 sums it up well.
Reuters Gabriela Baczynska reports: Russia said on Monday it would urge Syria to put its chemical weapons arsenal under international control if this would avert military strikes. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called a news conference to announce the proposal, said he had already conveyed the idea to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem at talks in Moscow and that Russia expected “a quick and, I hope, a positive answer.”
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier on Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avoid a U.S. strike by surrendering all his chemical weapons within a week, but immediately made clear he was not making a serious offer.
by Margarita Noriega (Reuters) 9:35
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Syria_9
Pluswhich, giving up chemical weapons is easy.
Keeping chemical weapons plants to produce more next week is also easy.
Just in case.
Good point. That’s a better analysis.
Notice that the “rebels” have attacked Homs, which is apparently the gateway to the gas fields. They want to take over there, either for the Saudis or for whoever else it is that is running them (and for whom we are now essentially working).
>Assad will now do his master’s bidding and hand over a couple dozen canisters of Industrial Strength Raid.<
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Perhaps so, but the rebels will keep their cylinders of Sarin well hidden for future use.
"RAAAIIIIIIID!"
Kerry was speaking “rhetorically” according a State Department flak. In other words, he did not mean a single word of it.
Kerry knows that it would be logistically impossible to secure and turn over the entirety of Syria’s CW arsenal within a week. It was not a good-faith ultimatum.
It was argumentum ad absurdum. But the Russians are clever enough to use Kerry’s idiocy to their advantage.
There’s a big problem with is pipeline theory. Saudi Arabia’s domestic demand for natural gas outstrips its production. Because of their huge petrochemical industry and electric power demand, the Saudis have no natural gas to export.
Vlad is the only voice of reason these days. Of course, they’ll only drop off a small amount at the front door and run around to the back to pick it up again. Buy, hey, it’s good for show and the msm can report it was a win-win.
UDATE:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064492/posts
Syria welcomes Russia’s proposal for Damascus to put its chemical weapons under (intl control)..
Reuters ^ | September 9, 2013
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New comments on Monday from international leaders signaled a possible shift in how chemical weapons in Syria might be handled:
Russia said it will urge Syria to put chemical weapons under international control if that will avert military strikes.
Syria: Syria welcomed Russia’s proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control, but stopped short of saying explicitly that President Bashar al-Assad’s government accepted it.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday Syria should be encouraged to put its chemical weapons beyond use and under international supervision, and that the proposed chemical weapons handover idea for Syria must not be used as a “distraction tactic.”
Speaking on Monday morning, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon says if chemical weapons were used in Syria, the international community must do something about it, adding that the UN is considering asking the UN Security Council to demand Syria immediately transfer chemical weapons to safe sites in Syria where they can be stored and destroyed.
The UN Security Council suffers from “embarrassing paralysis” on Syria, and must overcome that deadlock, Ki-moon continued.
by Margarita Noriega (Reuters) 11:00 AM
I would lean more to the 300 M range but told yah so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3063756/posts?page=17#17
It seems that the white House says this is just a delaying tactic. Obama knows how to double down on stupid.
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