Then there was Obama's "leading from (his) behind" intervention in Libya that resulted in no good results and the cover-up of the 9/11 Benghazi Terror Attacks. m/r
Syria’s Pals at the Chemical Weapons Convention | National Review Online
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 By Claudia Rosett
The treaty, “neither verifiable nor enforceable,” will protect Assad, not his potential victims.
With Russia on his side, Syria’s President Bashar Assad has now agreed to sign on to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which is meant to eliminate chemical weapons from the world once and for all. Having thrown this bone to the White House, which has accused him of killing at least 1,429 people last month with poison gas, perhaps Assad feels safer. But should we?
Odds are that in agreeing to sign the CWC, Assad knew he was enrolling in a treaty that is cumbersome to apply and easy to manipulate. Indeed, U.S. authorities believe that Russia, now proposing to help rid Assad of his chemical weapons, has itself been cheating on the chemical-weapons treaty. According to the State Department’s 2013 report to Congress on compliance with the CWC, “the United States assesses that Russia’s CWC declaration is incomplete with respect to chemical agent and stockpiles.”
Syria’s closest ally, Iran, joined this treaty in 1997. But the same State Department report notes that, “due to a combination of irregularities in the Iranian declaration and insufficient clarification from Iran,” the U.S. cannot certify that Iran has met its treaty obligations or rule out that it has retained an undeclared chemical-weapons stockpile. Last year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reported to Congress that “Iran maintains the capability to produce chemical warfare (CW) agents and conducts research that may have offensive applications.”
In 2004, Libya’s dictator, Moammar Qaddafi, signed on to the CWC, declaring his chemical-weapons stockpile for inspection and elimination. When Qaddafi was overthrown in 2011, the new Libyan government found two chemical-weapons sites he had not declared. Today, nine years after joining the treaty, Libya is still not entirely cleared of chemical munitions.
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