Occurs to me Putin could follow up his slam on Obama by taking the high ground on disarmament. With Syria getting rid of chemical weapons only six countries have not verified the chemical weapons convention. These include North Korea (already under arms sanctions), Egypt and Israel. A UN resolution sanctioning nations with chemical weapons and advocating arms embargoes would be politically difficult to veto given the US has been preaching the evil of nerve gas for months.
Follow that up with forcing compliance with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and the US will be forced to choose between protecting its client state or actually doing something constructive. An interesting dilemma for the State Department and a chance for Putin to strut and put the knife again.
The opposition in Syria must be awfully disappointed the US are not busily blowing things up. There is still a chance of a military strike however if there is another chemical attack but it would be a real headscratcher for any analyst to provide a motive for Assad to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Perhaps this could be a test of the false flag conspiracy theory. If this accord which gives Assad so much satisfaction is scuttled by a new atrocity, the crackpots will be vindicated.
It is hard to argue there is not enough press coverage of Syria. The problem in press coverage of foreign stories is that it always seem to focus on one issue at a time and entire conflicts simply disappear when new pictures come in.
Is the Egyptian military still shooting protestors? Two years on, what is happening in Libya? What has caused the wave of bombings in Iraq? These are the issues being ignored.
Occurs to me Putin could follow up his slam on Obama by taking the high ground on disarmament. With Syria getting rid of chemical weapons only six countries have not verified the chemical weapons convention. These include North Korea (already under arms sanctions), Egypt and Israel. A UN resolution sanctioning nations with chemical weapons and advocating arms embargoes would be politically difficult to veto given the US has been preaching the evil of nerve gas for months.
Follow that up with forcing compliance with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and the US will be forced to choose between protecting its client state or actually doing something constructive. An interesting dilemma for the State Department and a chance for Putin to strut and put the knife again.
The opposition in Syria must be awfully disappointed the US are not busily blowing things up. There is still a chance of a military strike however if there is another chemical attack but it would be a real headscratcher for any analyst to provide a motive for Assad to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Perhaps this could be a test of the false flag conspiracy theory. If this accord which gives Assad so much satisfaction is scuttled by a new atrocity, the crackpots will be vindicated.
It is hard to argue there is not enough press coverage of Syria. The problem in press coverage of foreign stories is that it always seem to focus on one issue at a time and entire conflicts simply disappear when new pictures come in.
Is the Egyptian military still shooting protestors? Two years on, what is happening in Libya? What has caused the wave of bombings in Iraq? These are the issues being ignored.