http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16992-chemical-weapons-experts-still-skeptical-about-us-claim-that-syria-used-sarin
There is still much we don't know. Claudia and Chomsky are certainly onto something.
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On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:52 PM, "Claudia Chaufan" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
The use of Sarin by Assad, assuming he did use it, or his authoritarian style, or whatever, is not the problem, in my opinion. once the imperial powers want to get rid of a non-compliant leader, they will invent the reason to attack and overthrow him/her.
WMD have never been a problem for the US, France or the UK (the govts. that is, not the people). In fact they are the ones to have used them the mos, beginning by, yet not limited to, the use of nuclear bombs by the US on civilian populations.
None of these countries have the minimal moral authority to intervene to protect anybody's human rights. Indeed, they have usually create or even worsened the conditions that lead to horrific human rights violations.
It's a real pity that the UN so often fails to live up to its mission, given the imbalance of power. If the General Assembly rather than the Security Council had any legal power the world would be a very different place. The list of times when the world votes one way and the US (followed often by its friends) another is just too long to reproduce.
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From: Douglas Parker <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: US will militarily intervene in Syria
I agree. Whether we take baby steps or giant leaps down this slippery slope, more people will die. The problem is that the Asaad regime stepped over line with respect to the use of Sarin nerve gas and that has opened the door for increasing military intervention by the U.S., France, and Britain as well as others. The UN has gone on record declaring that the use of Sarin nerve gas is a Crime (the use of a weapon of mass destruction). I sent a wikipedia reference earlier which you probably have read. It boxes in Asaad.
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From: "Crookston, Andrew James" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
To: Douglas Parker <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>; "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Subject: RE: US will militarily intervene in Syria
I guess the Syrian Rebels can now be added to the list with Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and nations-states affiliated the "war on drugs" that routinely violate human rights and receive arms shipments from the United States. I am not trying to brush off the atrocities being committed by Asaad and the Syrian state, but, in spite of what we were led to believe by the European and US press, Asaad is firmly in control and I don't see how infusing more arms into the situation is going to curtail the awful bloodshed rather than exacerbating it. Then, of course, there is the reality of the boon for the arms industry who always seems to come up a winner in US foreign policy. --AC
Andy Crookston
PhD candidate
Department of Sociology
Washington State University
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Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:26 AM
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Subject: US will militarily intervene in Syria
not with ground troops but with weapons. Al Jazeera, CNN and the L.A. Times
have comparable reports. I guess Tugrul and I are the only ones who can make
posts this late (for me on the far left west coast). For the LA Times story, click
on the link below:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-us-syria-20130614,0,16123.story
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