{"id":37230,"date":"2013-08-25T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37230"},"modified":"2013-08-25T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T14:16:18","slug":"its-looking-like-chemical-weapons-were-used-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37230","title":{"rendered":"It’s looking like chemical weapons were used in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> says that a “senior administration official” claims that there is “little doubt” that Syria used chemical weapons against the rebels there the other day;<\/p>\n

The official says Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community based its assessment given to the White House on “the reported number of victims, reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured, and witness accounts.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n

The official says the White House believes the Syrian government is barring a U.N. investigative team immediate access to the site of a reported Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs in order to give the evidence of the attack time to degrade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, Assad, keeping inspectors away from places didn’t work too well for Saddam Hussein, so good luck with that strategy.<\/p>\n

Another AP article<\/a> says that the Obama Administration hasn’t decided how they’re going to react to the incident;<\/p>\n

“There are risks and consequences for any option that would be used or not used – for action or inaction,” he told reporters. “You have to come to the central point of what would be the objective if you are to pursue an action or not pursue an action. So all those assessments are being made.”<\/p>\n

He said the administration is weighing many factors. These include an intelligence assessment of what some say appears to have been a chemical attack on civilians, as well as what he called legal issues and the matter of international support for any military response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds like a Joe Bite Me answer. The “risks and consequences” to this administration, of course, don’t compare with the “risks and consequences” any military force faces in the region if they’re deployed and at this juncture in the problem, I don’t see any other option. Still, no one is asking this administration why we should get involved at all since it’s just a despot killing prospective terrorists. Neither is anyone asking where the chemical weapons could have come from in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press says that a “senior administration official” claims that there is “little doubt” that … It’s looking like chemical weapons were used in Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}