Thread: The crisis in Syria

Well, it owns that they finally agreed on a solution for Assad's chemical weapons but that won't help if they don't get the chemical weapons away from the rebels too. It only fixes half the problem.

I agree 100%. I am glad that the original rebels have split away from the jihadists though. Not sure how this will change the US stance if at all.
Personally I'd be happy if all the countries in that region had to give up their chemical weapons.
The idea that such weapons even exist nauseates and disgusts me.
Then again, I live in a country with a cache of nuclear arms so vast we could wipe out the world several times over.
It is the sad reality we all live in today.

Originally Posted by Deborski

I agree 100%. I am glad that the original rebels have split away from the jihadists though. Not sure how this will change the US stance if at all.
Personally I'd be happy if all the countries in that region had to give up their chemical weapons.
The idea that such weapons even exist nauseates and disgusts me.
Then again, I live in a country with a cache of nuclear arms so vast we could wipe out the world several times over.
It is the sad reality we all live in today.

Yeah, and our country still has 3,188 of the 31,100 metric tons of chemical weapons that the UN said had to be destroyed by 2012. Now they wanna extend it to 2021 and President Bush rejected the verification process.
That needs to change cause having chemical weapons is NOT cool.
United States and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But there's good news too! Most of Assad's chemical weapons aren't even weaponized yet so they can be neutralized fast.
Most of Syria’s toxins can be destroyed more easily than officials initially thought - The Washington Post

And yeah, it's cool that the rebels split from the Al Nusra fighters but the Al Nusra = 75% of the rebel fighters. And in that last article I'm posting, even the U.S. admits that the opposition coulda stolen some of those chemical weapons. But the Al Nusra fighters probably already got chemical weapons from Saudi Arabia anyway.
Well, at least the refugees are getting some good support from the Lebanese Prime Minister. He's calling on UN member states to send aid to help them out.
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