keep telling everyone the stage is being set up.
Chessboard is being arranged.
"the U.S. has conspicuously failed to act according to strategic rationale."
Because its all part of a larger picture nobody is seeing.
Well, not many anyway.
"they actually represent graphic testimony to the strategic incompetence"
It's because it's supposed to be happening this way.
I never understood the second Iraq war.
It was because it was supposed to happen.
It helped set the current situation up.
"What has been happening n Syria is unspeakable. Assad and his helpers have repeatedly used chemical warfare on innocent civilians. Assad’s guilt as a war criminal is clear and is a telling measure of the irresolution of international political and judicial organizations that are not even considering measures towards indicting him."
"But beyond that Moscow, if not Tehran, is very complicit in his chemical warfare attacks. Of course, we have seen in the U.K. just how little regard Moscow has for the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1925, to which it is a signatory."
There have been more usages of chemical weapons in the last few years than at any time since WW1, in spite of all the international treaties.
I keep saying just how awful it's going to be.
"Furthermore, beyond the scourge of chemical weapons used against innocents abroad there is reason to suspect, on the basis of a recent book by Raymond Zilinskas and Phillipe Mauger, that Russia’s biological warfare program, organized despite the USSR’s adherence to international treaties banning such weapons, continues to exist and may be flourishing."
"there is an equally urgent need to restore the principles that treaties must be observed and that governments are not only accountable to their people but to the international community as a whole."
Good luck.
"Abandoning Syria to Assad — ISIS’ best recruiting symbol — Iran, and Russia merely guarantees future war."
It's what's going to happen.
"...Assad who must be held accountable for his crimes. Otherwise, not only will others repeat those crimes in the Middle East and elsewhere, the entire region will also not achieve any kind of equilibrium, not to mention peace. Iran, Isis, and Russia will be emboldened."
They already are.
"Israel and our allies in the Gulf will be further isolated and disenchanted..."
They already are too.
"and the U.S. will continue to shy away from realizing whatever interests it proclaims to be operative in the Middle East."
They already have.
It's just nobody is understanding why.
Great article.
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