Sunday, April 13, 2014

Somebody in that country still has some chemical weapons

Pinning responsibility on a particular enemy hasn't happened yet, but one thing we know is that a lot of people got hammered by real bad weapons:

Both sides in Syria's bloody civil war said Saturday that a rural village fell victim to a poison gas attack, an assault that reportedly injured scores of people amid an ongoing international effort to rid the country of chemical weapons.
What exactly happened Friday in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 125 miles north of Damascus, remains unclear and likely won't be known for some time. It took United Nations weapons inspectors months to say it was likely some chemical weapons attacks happened last year, including an August attack that killed hundreds and nearly sparked Western airstrikes against President Bashar Assad's forces.
But online videos posted by rebel activists from Kfar Zeita echoed earlier images that sparked a world outcry, showing pale-faced men, women and children gasping for breath at a field hospital. They suggest an affliction by some kind of poison — and yet another clouded incident where both sides blame each other in a conflict that activists say has killed more than 150,000 people with no end in sight.
The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack hurt dozens of people, though it did not identify the gas used.
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4 comments:

  1. Gotta love it, some evil has apparently been unleashed in the dangerous Middle East and you find a way to insult our sitting Secretary of State because you are a crazed right winger.

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  2. His attempts to shape an international accord on this matter that involved ridding Syria of such weapons appears to have been unsuccessful.

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  3. You are also a crazed hawk. Your preemptors had their day and were cast out. Now we must endure your incessant whining. What a burr up our arses!

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  4. So they were cast out. Does that tell us anything about whether they should be back in or not? Also, preemption is only part of a grownup view of foreign policy.

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