[Blood of Tyrants]

Would you prefer Obama lobbing missiles and possibly drawing the Russians into a war?

[lbryce]

Do you really think there's the slightest credibility of the Syrians "handing" over their stash of chemical weapons, which would ostensibly be handing over every single last bacteriological microbe in their arsenal???

Who's to tell what comprises the Syrian arsenal, who's to tell what Syria has not hidden away, who's to tell any aspect of what two allied, militant anti-Western countries claim they're going to do will do in an effort to mollify the World that the danger of poison gas warfare in the Middle East is now a thing of the past? What are the mechanisms to insure all of this will come to pass?

Unless there's some sort of verification, I can't see how anyone is simply going to take the word of a ruthless dictator whose killed his own citizens and an ardent Cold War warrior itching to show up its now decrepit, age old arch foe?