Karl is your neighborhood drunk. Government healthcare arrives and Karl wants free rehab....lots of fancy tough expensive and in-patient rehab. Karl can’t afford it, so he expects everyone to pay for his share.
In this case, Syria is Karl. You’d have to be an absolute nutcase to sign up the US and cover a billion dollars of disposal. You can imagine the imaginary Russian companies that would suddenly show up, and get the contracts....put the stuff into barrels and drop them off sixty miles west of Hawaii.
This is the greatest gimmick to stick onto the President. He has to go and ask the Republicans for a billion of chemical disposal money...which they will argue about and say no. He looks dopey in front of his world audience because he can’t find a billion just laying around.
No Fu_____g Way.
Were all upset over Seria Cassing 1400 people, the’ve already killed 100.000 people and no one is really upset.
We in America have destroyed the lives of 65 million Pre-Born babies and we seem to be proud of that.
Time for some serious Intro-spection, Ya’, Think
Didn’t we give North Korea a ton of money and other goodies not to develop nukes? That worked out well. What could possibly go wrong with this deal? /s
No — let the Saudis pay it.
How about Syria keep its weapons, we keep our billion, and we stop arming Al-CIA-duh that is slaughtering Syria’s Christians.
North Korea used Bill Clinton's massive payoffs intended to stop the North Korean nuclear weapons program to, in reality, fund their nuclear weapons program.
Repeating that mistake would be beyond stupid, so our politicians are certain to do so.