Syria agrees to Russian proposal to put weapons Assad doesn't even admit he has under international control in order to put off a US strike. And in bonus Iraq Part 2 territory, Secretary of State Kerry demands that Assad turn over his chemical weapons! Within a week! Time to dust off the Inspections Handbook of Obstruction that Saddam sent Assad in the 1990s, eh?
If we go this route again, Assad will not turn over all his chemical weapons. Assad won't provide sufficient proof that he has given them all up even as he claims he has. And soon Westerners will assume inspections are for the purpose of America proving that Assad has chemical weapons rather than Assad proving he has given them all up.
And Assad will gain victim status as he stages dead baby parades the way Saddam did to blame all his woes on Western sanctions. And we'll have another Iraq. Pre-2003 Iraq, to be sure. But another Iraq.
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- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
