John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MOHAMAD KATOUB IN THE IDEPENDENT
“I helped Syrian children after the Ghouta chemical weapons attack. Five years on, it's time for these war crimes to be prosecuted
“Rescue teams entered affected houses and evacuated all those inside with no time to examine them individually. None of them wore protective material; none of them had any”
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Response to a comment:
Yes, indeed.
I am quite tired of reading this kind of stuff, too.
We should not forget that Hillary at Benghazi was involved in a program of moving weapons and thugs into Syria.
One of the weapons was some quantity of Sarin from Qaddafi's stocks (kept as a counter to Israel's nuclear weapons).
Some Turkish border guards actually discovered small containers being smuggled too.
And of course, Obama/Hillary were in search of an incident to trigger Obama's "red line" threats.
There is no reason to believe that Assad did anything of this kind.
In fact, I believe it’s a it absurd to promote this idea.
The strategic value of a limited use of such gas is zero. Assad is fighting a huge sweeping invasion of what are essentially paid mercenaries from abroad, America’s terrorists, if you will.
The idea that he would risk giving the United States/Israel/Saudi Arabia a big excuse for even more intervention is close to ridiculous. He is actually quite an intelligent man too, one well aware of risks and realities.
I do not think Assad is a saint, but he is in many ways a reasonable leader for his situation.
He does have a threatening mass killer on his border with Israel, a man we have watched literally mowing down unarmed people and who has killed a thousand kids plus several thousand others in his horrors against Gaza.
And in the new usurper Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia, he has another cold-blooded, ruthless killer.
