Are people like vincent still seriously trying to argue that America or the un or some world police is seriously going to ride in invade Syria and depose Assad because of this chemical attack As a reason for it all being a massive hoax akin to 9/11 conspiracy theories?
Seriously?
Because in case you haven't noticed there are Russian "advisors" in every major Syrian base now. America may utter some harsh words, sell some weapons and donate some cash like they did in Afghanistan but they are not about to declare war and kill Russian soldiers in open combat.
Assad will face no repercussions that match the loss of this war. If he loses he dies. He will do anything to win and more importantly he can do anything because no one is going to stop him.
The Russians were invited by Assad to help keep his country and the vast majority of his people secure and safe from rebels including radical islamists who have been supplied and prompt up by the arms of the west, prolonging what would otherwise have been a short put down of a disparate uprising. It would be akin to Russia arming those people protesting Mark Duggans killing. It would have made a very containable situation incredibly messy. As our involvement has here.
Are people like you still following the narrative of our leaders unquestioningly when they have demonstrably mislead and outright lied in order to promulgate their control over resources? How does that saying go? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?
Theresa wants to use my tax to bomb Syria because they claim Syria has used chemical weapons? Show me the evidence and tell me what you intend to achieve. Then we can talk. Until then I do not support it.
Chlorine of course not being a chemical weapon hasn't been inspected or destroyed at all. Such a task would be impossible given its ubiquitous nature in industry.
And of course in a civil war where land and resources have traded hands on a number of occasions we know with assurance that Assad is the only person with any access whatsoever to chlorine gas stocks, we also know that Assad is the only person with anything to gain by their use.
No, we know that it's a war torn country where just about everyone now seems to have access to these weapons, we know from independent investigators that chlorine has demonstrably been used by rebels and what's more the rebels are the ones who stand to gain by prolonging the war and bringing in additional combatants.
We also know that Syria has complied with the OCPW and allowed them full access, contrary to what you might expect form a rogue state like, say, North Korea, much like Saddam did prior to the Iraq war. And as was proven about the Iraq war our leaders were itching to get involved, it was planned for years and they were just waiting for the justification to go in, even if it meant relying on very spurious and suspicious sources while independent investigators were confirming Saddam's story.
Assad might be on the front foot and ISIS might be waning but still huge areas of the country not under his control, Turkey seems to be pushing hard on two fronts with ambiguous reasons reinforcing many of the opposition in the North West of the country, etc. amongst a load of other reasons the pressure is still massively on Assad.