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Did Kerry offer Syria a way out?
This afternoon, the Secretary of State John Kerry floated an idea in passing that was then endorsed by the Russians– to seize Syria's chemical weapons and avoid a U.S. military strike. The plan has been gaining momentum since then, and the president told Wolf the plan is "possible if it's real." CNN's Jim Sciutto reports on how the off-hand comment may lead to a way out of the crisis in Syria.
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THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH: So Assad with the assistance of Putin, are going to give up the chemical weapons, they said Assad never had to use? And now someone is going to believe these ruthless clowns can be trusted to dispose of these non existing chemical weapons? So the lesson here is that unless, the world nations support our President's "potential threat to action strike fear into Assad, the coward, to cooperate," be "warned that finding and destroying "more than 1,000 tons of chemical weapons stockpile to protect children and women in the future, would be very difficult and would require international verification amid Syria's civil war.
This so called way out is just prolonging the inevitable. There is no way to confirm the Syrian government is going to provide an exhaustive and accurate list of its stock pile. After an agreement and all known chemicals distroyed what would stop Assad from using chemical weapons that may have been with held from the inspectors and blaming the opposition argueing he gave up all his chemical weapons? In this scinario, the situation would be more complex. I don't think Obama would feel so lucky then.
I think Kerry has offered a peaceful alternative.