"Strong Leaders Prevent Wars"
What our American, British and French partners showed us in the past and have showed just recently is absolutely unconvincing. And when you ask for more detailed proof they say all of this is classified, so we cannot show this to you.
"There was nothing specific there, no geographic co-ordinates, no names, no proof that the tests were carried out by the professionals."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
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That's what might be called perspective. And from Russia's perspective there is no proof, there will never be acceptable proof that their traditional client for whom they never hesitate to vouch the very best of intentions, had any hand in the heinous attack by the (did I forget to say alleged, sorry about that) Syrian military on two Damascus suburbs. Where a whole bunch of Syrian Sunni civilians irritatingly got in the way of the attack meant for terrorists.
And since poison gas is not particularly selective, they just got what was certainly coming at them. As far as their president is concerned they were in the wrong place at just the right time. Which should teach them a lesson about being where they should not be in the first place. Not to worry; they'll make more children.
President Bashar al Assad made himself very available for an interview with France's Le Figaro. Nothing like getting it from the horse's mouth, after all, even if this particular horse is a roaring chimera, a fire-exhaling winged dragon expelling nerve gas because he has no other option left to his honourable self by which to battle terrorists.
And the West just doesn't seem to get terrorists. "All the accusations are based on allegations of the terrorists and on arbitrary videos posted on the Internet", he said, and that's that. Isn't it?
The French spy agency DGSE and the military intelligence unit DRM wrote their analysis based on satellite imagery, video images, and sources on the ground. Oh, along with samples that were painstakingly collected from the (alleged) chemical attacks away back in April. "Very unlikely" was their assessment that Syria's opposition furthermore, could have gathered a coterie of such thespian-skilled children to mock the suffering that turned up online.
In their considered opinion, nor does the opposition, as capable as they might like to portray themselves otherwise, have the means to conduct an attack on that scale with the use of chemical agents. Just incidentally, it seems around the time of the attack it was revealed that the regime faced the fear of an opposition strike on Damascus: "Our evaluation is that the regime was looking to loosen the vice and secure the strategic sites for the control of the capital", reads the report.
As for those two April attacks in Saraqeb and Jobar, samples collected by French intelligence services including urine, blood, soil and munitions samples confirming beyond any dobut the use of sarin gas. Oops, you say?
"From my perspective, power lies in your ability to prevent wars not in igniting them. Power comes from one's ability to stand up and acknowledge their mistakes; if Obama was strong, he would have stood up and said that there is no evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons, he would have stood up and said that the right way forward is to wait for the results of the UN investigations and work through the UN Security Council. However, as I see it, he is weak because he succumbed to internal pressure from small groups and threatened military action. As I said strong leaders are those who prevent wars not those who inflame them."
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Words of ineffable wisdom from the source of the conflict. The distasteful height of risible hypocrisy you say?
Now, whatever on Earth would lead you to that conclusion?
Labels: Chemical Weapons, Conflict, Crisis Politics, Intervention, Syria
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, September 04, 2013
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