President Obama says that he wants Congress to continue the process to authorize his planned war on Syria today, in spite of a disarmament plan that emerged earlier today which could lead to the full dismantling of Syria’s chemical arsenal.
Obama said he was “open” to the idea of putting the planned attack temporarily on hold if Assad transfers all chemical weapons, an idea proposed by Secretary of State John Kerry earlier today and accepted by both Russia and Syria.
Kerry has since informed Russia that the offer was not a sincere proposal, and multiple officials have said that there is no reason for the proposal’s acceptance to get in the way of Congress authorizing the war.
Yet clearly there is. The putative excuse for this attack was to scare the Assad government into not using chemical weapons in the future, and they obviously can’t if they don’t have such weapons.
Instead of taking a diplomatic victory, the administration seems to just want this plan to go away so they can get back to the important work of lying America into war.
yeah. pretty much it.
Here we go again, dis honest and warmonger ideology is what a falsified democracy present, why is it that world doesn't trust USA government, is just that they are not, never been and not willing to be honest.
Yup. Russia screwed up. They should have made some nebulous comment, like we like what Kerry said and we will consider it if Congress does not declare war first.
Since Obama intends to try to get Congressional authorization for a war anyway, all he needs to worry about then is how to create another fake excuse to start it, even if Syria does turn over its chemical weapons.
It will take months for Syria to do that. And who will do the verification? Russia? Will Obama accept Russian assurances if Israel denies them? How about production facilities? Who will verify no new production if Israel stays Syria has produced more weapons?
It's a great idea to have Syria remove its chemical weapons. If nothing else, it may delay the war. But it won't stop Obama from trying to get one. The strategic reason for this crisis is to remove Syria as an effective actor against Israel in an Iran war, and to enable Israel to remove Hizballah in Lebanon as an effective actor against Israel in an Iran war. So Obama has no choice but to continue to try to get a war with Syria any way he can.