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Monday, September 9, 2013

DETAILS ON WHY THERE WILL BE NO STRIKES ON SYRIA

Posted on 6:54 PM by Unknown

On the previous post I said I would stick out my neck and say that there would be no strikes on Syria.  I've gotten e-mails from my friends asking for specifics. Ok, although I could give other sources, let's stick with Charlie Rose's comment, after interviewing Assad.  Rose said that his assessment of Assad's position on giving up control of chemical weapons to international control was that "he would consider it as a good idea."  Below is a video of the interview and information.  After that is a discussion.  Next, John Kerry's statement that the U.S. would not strike Syria if they gave up chemical weapons.

Rose: Assad "opened the door" to handing over chemical weapons

     
After interviewing Syrian President Bashar Assad, CBS News' Charlie Rose said he thinks the dictator was open to the possibility of handing over chemical weapons to avoid a U.S. strike, the "CBS This Morning" anchor told WCBS-TV.

The interview occurred before Russia proposed a plan to have Syria give up its alleged chemical weapons to international control. Still, Rose had asked Assad how he would feel about giving up those weapons, despite Assad's repeated denials he had any.

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Rose said that Assad would "consider it as a good idea."

"[Assad] seemed to open the door to me to the possibility that something could be arranged to prevent that kind of strike that is anticipated, albeit the fact that he had said throughout the interview "I don't have chemical weapons,'" Rose told WCBS.

Assad made the comments in his only television interview since President Obama asked Congress to approve a military strike against Syria and his first with an American network in nearly two years.

Reflecting on the interview, which occurred Sunday at the President Palace in Damascus, Rose said he felt that Assad was trying to "define himself."

"[The Syrian government] said to me the night before, 'He expects you to ask all the hard questions. He knows that you will and he is prepared for that,'" Rose said. "I think we did ... I think he wanted to try to define the world as he sees it on chemical weapons."

Assad refused to say whether or not he used any type of chemical weapons on his own people, but "he constantly made reference to the fact that the people who were [among] the rebels had significant ties to al Qaeda and al Qaeda affiliates, and that the U.S. should be fearful of that fact," Rose said.

Previously, Rose said Assad had appeared "remarkably calm" during the interview.

Clips from the interview first aired on "CBS This Morning" and "CBS Evening News" Monday. More of Rose's interview will Tuesday on "CBS This Morning" at 7 am ET.
 

Now, a report from The Guardian.  The key part is where Kerry says that Assad might avoid attack from US if he handed over "every bit" of chemical weapons.

 

John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack

US secretary of state tells London press conference with William Hague that US intelligence blames Assad regime for gas attack
  • Patrick Wintour
  • theguardian.com, Monday 9 September 2013 07.47 EDT                 

 
Link to video: John Kerry on military strikes against Syria
 

 
The US secretary of state has said that President Bashar al-Assad has one week to hand over his entire stock of chemical weapons to avoid a military attack. But John Kerry added that he had no expectation that the Syrian leader would comply.
Kerry also said he had no doubt that Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in east Damascus on 21 August, saying that only three people are responsible for the chemical weapons inside Syria – Assad, one of his brothers and a senior general. He said the entire US intelligence community was united in believing Assad was responsible.
Kerry was speaking on Monday alongside the UK foreign secretary, William Hague, who was forced to deny that he had been pushed to the sidelines by the House of Commons decision 10 days ago to reject the use of UK force in Syria.
The US Senate is due to vote this week on whether to approve an attack and Kerry was ambivalent over whether Barack Obama would use his powers to ignore the legislative chamber, if it were to reject an attack.
The US state department stressed that Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the one-week deadline and unlikelihood of Assad turning over Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. In a statement, the department added: "His point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That's why the world faces this moment."
Kerry said the US had tracked the Syrian chemical weapons stock for many years, adding that it "was controlled in a very tight manner by the Assad regime … Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad, and a general are the three people that have the control over the movement and use of chemical weapons.
"But under any circumstances, the Assad regime is the Assad regime, and the regime issues orders, and we have regime members giving these instructions and engaging in these preparations with results going directly to President Assad.
"We are aware of that so we have no issue here about responsibility. They have a very threatening level of stocks remaining."
 
Kerry said Assad might avoid an attack if he handed every bit of his chemical weapons stock, but added that the Syrian president was not going to do that. He warned that if other nations were not prepared to act on the issue of chemical weapons, "you are giving people complete licence to do whatever they want and to feel so they can do with impunity".
 
Kerry said the Americans were planning an "unbelievably small" attack on Syria. "We will be able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted, short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for Syria's civil war. That is exactly what we are talking about doing – unbelievably small, limited kind of effort."
The secretary of state repeatedly referred to genocides in eastern Europe and Rwanda in putting forward his case for taking military action. "We need to hear an appropriate outcry as we think back on those moments of history when large numbers of people have been killed because the world was silent," he said. "The Holocaust, Rwanda, other moments, are lessons to all of us today.
"So let me be clear," he continued. "The United States of America, President Obama, myself, others are in full agreement that the end of the conflict in Syria requires a political solution."
But he insisted such a solution was currently impossible if "one party believes that he can rub out countless numbers of his own citizens with impunity using chemicals that have been banned for 100 years".
Hague was forced to emphasise that the UK was engaged in the Syrian crisis through its call for greater action on humanitarian aid, as well as support for the Geneva II peace process.
He pointed out that David Cameron had convened a meeting of countries at the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg to ramp up the humanitarian effort.
Hague met members of the Syrian opposition last Friday and described its leaders as democratic and non-sectarian. On Monday, he avoided questions on why he was not providing lethal equipment to the Syrian opposition.
He said it was for the US to decide whether to attack Syria without congressional endorsement. "These are the two greatest homes of democracy and we work in slightly different ways and we each have to respect how each other's democracies work."
Kerry said he did not know if Obama would release further intelligence proving the culpability of Assad in the chemical weapons attack, saying the administration had already released an unprecedented amount,
 

It could certainly be argued that Charlie Rose's assessment might be incorrect and that Kerry's statement, as reported in The Guardian that Assad may avoid attack if he hands over the chemical weapons is not a sufficient basis for concluding, as I have, that the U.S. will not now strike Syria.  My conclusion is that, in the Rose assessment and the Kerry statement, there are great grounds for optimism is based on several assumptions:  1)  Obama is looking for a way to save face after his "red line" blunder and he will do what he can to make it appear that the weapons are turned over it was because of his pressure on Assad and 2) Assad likes the military upper hand he has in the Syrian civil war and there is no value in it for him to have to deal with unknown consequences of a (probably constantly escalating war) with U.S.


 

 

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