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Syria: Call Everyone's Bluff

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« on: September 08, 2013, 01:54:06 pm »

Good idea..

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters/la-le-0907-saturday-syria-chemical-weapons-20130907,0,5025353.story

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Re "Senate panel supports U.S. strike on Syria," Sept. 5

It's time to call everyone's bluff on the Syrian chemical issue to smoke out the contending parties. Whether it be Bashar Assad's regime, the rebels, the U.S. and its allies, Arab states, the Russians or the Iranians, all claim they are against chemical weapons use in Syria. Leaving aside the wink-wink involved — obviously, some party (think the Assad regime) used the weapons in the August attack — let's put the representations to the test.

Washington should go before the United Nations Security Council and present a resolution that calls for a U.N.-executed elimination that would remove all chemical weapons from the combat zone. The Syrian government should not object. After all, it claims it would never use chemical weapons against its people. Furthermore, the Assad regime has every incentive to prevent the rebels from capturing the arsenal, which only elimination can ensure. The rebels claim no interest in the arsenal. Moscow and Tehran should go along, given their proclaimed stances. Ditto other concerned nations that support the rebels.

The resolution would be a test of sincerity, exposing for all to see who are the hypocrites and who are not, while relieving Syria of the deadly brew — in the unlikely event it goes along.

Bennett Ramberg
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