Syria-Possible Sarin use

[christislife4me]

Miliband played politics and so the UK is going to sit by. At least the US and France seem resolved to do what has to be done.

[QueenT]

Assad has used chemical weapons. But in May, the UN said that the rebels used chemical weapons. How do we intervene to stop the use of chemical weapons when both sides are using 'em?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10039672/UN-accuses-Syrian-rebels-of-chemical-weapons-use.html

[ouiloui]

Let them do their own thing in their country, allow and assist those fleeing the country, and make sure they don't bring that crap out of their country.

I could live with that.

[pirateprincess]

I think who ever perpetrated the recent chemical attack, providing the UN inspectors find out conclusively, should be bombed at least by the US and France, Assad, Jihadist Rebels, FSA, who ever it was this time. In fact, who needs UN inspectors, let's just go with what the most hawkish government says, they knew all about the WMD's in Iraq, right? and they say it's Assad!!! I mean they'd never lie. Besides, Iraq and it's people are peacefully prospering now, just like Libya! :P

[enigmaiasma]

You bomb the crap out of Assad's forces, set up a peacekeeping operation, oversee democratic elections and get the hell out as soon as possible.

What you don't do is sit back and let dictators around the world know that the West will sit idly by whilst they massacre their citizens.

[cyberdoc]

It doesn't work like that though. If Assad thinks he can use chemical weapons on towns in rebel held areas with inpunity, he will do so. The world cannot stand back and let him get away with that.

[peace♥♫]

There's already over 100,000 refugees in Jordan. Thankfully, Jordanians seem to treat refugees much better than the infamous Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23661065

I wouldn't mind taking the total cost of these airstrikes Obama is considering (probably an eight-digit figure), putting half that money toward infrastructure in the Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, spending the other half of it on US schools, and calling it a day.

[texasfan_16]

Um, it's the UN chemical weapons inspectors who said it was WMDs in Syria this time. Those same inspectors did not say anything close to the same thing in the case of Iraq.

[JoBrosROCKt]

He's killed 100,000 people with conventional weapons and 1,000 people with chemical weapons. Could the world let him get away with the former? Because nobody was bombing him until the latter occurred--not the US, not the UK, not France, etc.

And if we attack Assad over this, aren't we letting the rebels get away with using Sarin against Assad's supporters three months ago?

Hell, do we even know for sure that this attack was actually by Assad himself and not a false-flag operation by the rebels meant to draw in western militaries on their side? Crazier things have happened.

[Tesla]

WMD's? Not sure how that terminology comes in to the Syrian equation.

The UN inspectors are tasked with finding the source of said attack. The fact that there was an attack is not in dispute by any side.

The point is, as was clearly pointed out in the British parliament, there is no evidence yet. The US has stated it has it, but not shared it. So let's see, maybe we will find out who actually did what, but I suspect we won't.