Western-driven efforts to blame Syria for alleged chemical attacks in 2017 have led to a new action Thursday, as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons voted to demand Syria confess all details about the attack, and the facilities used to produce the chemicals.
That’s a non-starter, and probably by design, as Syria has repeatedly denied being involved in the attacks. There isn’t good evidence to pin them on Syria, either, but US and other nations pushed through a call for OPCW to assign blame that was a foregone conclusion before it even began.
This is a continuation of that probe, as now that they’ve blamed Syria, they can demand a confession. Since Syria never admitted wrongdoing, they’re clearly not going to now, and that’s where the OPCW can talk about punishment.
The OPCW has limited options in that regard, as they could suspend Syria’s voting rights within the body. Beyond that, it’s possible to take the matter to the UN Security Council, but Russia already voted against the OPCW’s measure, and could be expected to veto any UN moves.
OPCW under new and improved management. It was bound to happen.
Of course assad is not going to admit he gassed his own people who opposed him. The evidence is overwhelming (empty gas canisters being used for flower pots in his yard) and the process for going in there to remove assad is well underway.
I want some of the drugs that have knocked you into your delusional world…. Seem like a good way to hide from the world.
This is the best example of why China is getting ahead un technology — this is OUR version of AI in service of providing robotic comments.
Or playing video games.
Anything but useful.
funny how the greatest country in the world with the smartest minds and leaders are convinced without a shadow of doubt that assad is guilty and will remove him sooner or later. yet, the dissenters believe that a third world country leader wouldn’t stoop to such levels to remain in power.
It is not funny at all. The smartest leaders of the greatest country do what their mother country — Britain— did for centuries to be great. Plunder weakest, lie to its population and the world with impunity, murder with impunity.
That was the world order this young country inherited and then perfected. The virtuous cycle of technological revolution started in the then center of Universe, Britain, that strangulated world with mercantilism, and colonies rebelled. But once we gained freedom, copied all Britain has done.
Britain , France, Germany, Italy — still thought they were the center of universe just before WWI. Debt ridden — all saw the relief in the shape of war — and all lost. America was ascendant. It took Europe another war — WWII — to make sure they are losers.
But we have not invented a better world order — after a few flashes of global leadership in the shape of UN — we went right back and with vengeance stated to reinvent British empire. No wonder. The same financial “technology “ that devastated Europe has entered US with gusto. And like Britain in 19th century, it became the greatest country on earth — and just like Britain, within one century is drowning in debt.
What is there to do? Go after world’s bounties, but wrap it up in flag and humanitarian tears.
Assad just the latest of our would be conquests. Assad has come to symbolize our impotence, as there is really no value in owning it by imposing a new management.
We are doing what Europeans did in two wars — thinking they ruled the globe. Now they are technologically behind, out poorer cousins, dependent on our munificence.
There are no smarts in being a bully, willing to endlessly lie — knowingly lie — not even caring that the world knows we are lying. Assad is a person that showed what dignity in adversity means. Our swarms of militants did not crush Syria — i is mostly liberated.
But we are angry and vengeful— and are desperately clinging to the hope that the surrounded Al-Qaeda in Idlib will somehow rebrand itself into saintly “opposition”.
But our danger is overreach. If we do not get it — Iran may be our Suez moment.