Compared to nations like the United States, which formally signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and have then spent generations slowly reducing their arsenals, Syria has been remarkably quick. 86 percent of chemicals have been exported, by most recent estimates, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) sees the last of them gone by Sunday.
A job well done for the OPCW team, which can expect a hearty pat on the back and to issue a final report when the off-shore disincorporation finishes in June, according to Syria’s UN Ambassador.
Western officials aren’t on board with that, however, saying they want the OPCW monitors to stay in the country, apparently more or less forever, to investigate various other allegations of chemical usage in the ongoing Civil War.
US officials hit out at the OPCW, saying it would be “horrific” to end the mission amid reports of chlorine gas use, since they aren’t removing all chlorine from the country.
How convenient, an alleged chlorine attack staged by…well no one seems to know if it even happened. Too bad all the Russian agents that the NYT fingered in Ukraine were figments of that paper's fevered brain, like WMD in Iraq. This stuff has been the new normal since at least Iran Contra and probably much earlier, maybe always. just remember 'Remember the Maine!'. Anyway, it's never going away, never. This is who are are and I must add that includes all of us, sorry for that.
If everyone just stopped reading the NY Times, then they wouldn't be fooled. And the NY Times would go out of business rather quickly.