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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| 'US, Israel discuss destroying Syrian weapons' |
| 2012-07-19 |
| This is basically a secondhand report in the Jerusalem Post of an original article in the NYT that I was unable to find. The United States and Israel were in discussions over whether Israel should take out Syrian weapons facilities as the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad falters, The New York Times reported Thursday. According to the report, which cited two administration officials, the United States is opposed to such an attack "because of the risk that it would give Mr. Assad an opportunity to rally support against Israeli interference." The whole thing's at the link; they wring their hands that no matter what we do things will get worse, and also say that Assad is going to fall in the near-term. One thing they don't really want to talk about, I suspect, and can't even talk about how they don't want to talk about it... the current US regime got into office by accusing its opponents of lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction for a massive five-year election cycle. And now Hezbollah is about to gain unsupervized control over a weapons stockpile, much of which The New Establishment has spent the last decade saying doesn't exist. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #9 Golf Bravo. In that case, two possibilities. One is that they never see the light of day, and the other is that Bush is blamed for letting them get away. Obama and his fitty-twoers are capable of thinking both simultaneously. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2012-07-19 19:02 |
| #8 That is quite a thought GolfBravo. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-07-19 17:57 |
| #7 If you incinerate them with a tactical nuke, they tend not to be so dangerous. Just sayin'... |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-07-19 15:14 |
| #6 What would happen if we secured the chemical weapons and found a large portion came from Iraq after our invasion nearly a decade ago? |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2012-07-19 15:07 |
| #5 As somebody said, these WMD never existed but somebody is always acknowledged to have massive stocks on hand. Problem with busting these things is that poison gas, and some biological agents, if they get loose in the attack, will kill a lot of folks who were not supposed to be killed. Some munitions are going to be prepared and if they're opened one way or another bad things will happen and bulk stocks will be on hand to fill more. Binary stocks might not be too dangerous if let out by explosions. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2012-07-19 14:54 |
| #4 And they aren't smart enough to be a cabal. Hmm. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-07-19 14:39 |
| #3 They're not professional enough to be an administration. They'd have to stop campaigning for five damn minutes to administrate anything. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-07-19 14:37 |
| #2 "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them - whatever decisions they make - to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," -Governor Bev Perdue (D) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-07-19 14:17 |
| #1 One small quibble: the US government is an administration, not a regime. Zimbabwe has a regime. We may not like Champ (I sure don't) but he has an administration. Unless he decides to indulge his inner communist just after the election, of course... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-07-19 13:25 |