'Assad giving up his chemical weapons without our military firing a single shot is a big victory for us…'
- mnjg on September 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM
This is what an ‘American victory’ looks like mnjg:
- Yesterday in Paris
Today:
‘If Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away
his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat
Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he’ll still be able to eat
Cheerios.’
- A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, describing a US strike
‘We’re not going to war. We will be able to hold [Syrian President]
Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging troops on the ground or any
other prolonged kind of effort, in a very limited, very targeted, very
short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons
without assuming responsibility for Syria’s civil war. That is exactly
what we are talking about doing; AN UNBELIEVABLY SMALL, LIMITED KIND OF EFFORT.’
- Secretary of State John Kerry, London, 9 September 2013
‘He could turn over every single bit of his chemical
weapons to the international community in the next week — turn it over,
all of it, without delay and allow the full and total accounting.’
- Secretary of State John Kerry, this morning
In his next breath, he said:
‘Of course, he isn’t about to do that. It can't be done.’
Which was quickly followed by this statement from the State Department:
‘Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical
argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over
chemical weapons he has denied he used. His (Kerry’s) point was that THIS BRUTAL DICTATOR WITH A HISTORY OF PLAYING FAST AND
LOOSE WITH THE FACTS CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO TURN OVER CHEMICAL WEAPONS, OTHERWISE
HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO LONG AGO. That’s why the world faces this moment.’
So, naturally, what happens next?
The Russians jump:
‘We have passed our offer to (Syrian Foreign Minister
Walid) Al-Muallem and hope to receive [a] fast and positive answer. We
call on the Syrian leadership not only agree on a statement of storage
of chemical weapons under international control, but also its subsequent
destruction, as well as about the full accession to the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. We will immediately join the
work with Damascus if establishing international control over chemical
weapons in that country helps prevent attacks. There cannot
be any deals made with regard to Russian policy that were concluded
behind the Syrian people’s back. That will not happen.’
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, today
‘The Syrian Arab Republic welcomed the
RUSSIAN initiative, based on the concerns of the RUSSIAN leadership for
the lives of our citizens and the security of our country.’
- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, who met with Lavrov in Moscow earlier today
So does UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.
And, then, the Obama administration is
forced to respond to the response to Kerry’s
Gaffeplomacy:
U.S. officials say they will take a “hard look” at a proposal
for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons to international control to avoid a
military strike.
State
Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Monday the
U.S. would consider THE PROPOSAL FLOATED BY FOREIGN MINISTERS IN RUSSIA AND
SYRIA with ‘serious skepticism’ because it might be a stalling tactic. She said
Syria had consistently refused to destroy its chemical weapons in the past.
The
proposal came after Secretary of State John Kerry said in London on Monday that
Syrian President Bashar Assad could end the crisis by turning over all his
chemical weapons. Harf said Kerry wasn’t
putting forth a formal proposal.
For the rest of us, it’s just embarrassing.
'Laugh as much as you want… The fact is that we want to
strike Assad to deter and degrade his chemical weapons capabilities… and
without a single shot fired from our military Assad gave up his
chemical weapons and to be destroyed under UN supervision… So absolutely
yes, it is a huge victory for the USA…'
- mnjg on September 9, 2013 at 2:13 PM
It isn’t American power that MIGHT cause Assad to turn over his
weapons cache, the size of which, by the way, no one, including the
United States, has any idea by their own admission.
It’s will be a huge victory for Putin, who has played the Obama administration like a Stradivarius.
'Good, we have won the standoff against Assad if he has agreed to destroy
his chemical weapons as just reported…THAT IS THE POWER OF THE USA, THE MERE THREAT OF FORCE
AND OUR ENEMIES GIVE UP…'
- mnjg on September 9, 2013 at 1:38 PM
Just like:
The British
The Spanish
The Mexicans
Imperial Germany
Imperial Japan
Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
The Soviet Union
North Korea
The Viet Cong
Saddam Hussein
The Taliban
Al-Qaeda
Afghanistan
Moammar Qaddafi
AQIM
AQIL
AQAP
Iran
They all gave up after the US merely threatened them. All ran and cowered in corners. /
Excuse
me if I don’t pay much attention to your analysis of this situation.
Your intellectual chops have been measured and found to be wanting.
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