Originally Posted by ChipMHazard
Or a deliberate attack created to try and force the western world into action. Getting the US/UN to attack president Assad would help ensure the opposition's victory. If Assad had wanted to he almost certainly would have been able to pull off his own version of Hussein's chemical attack.
I don't trust either side in this civil war, both sides are obviously going to do what they deem necessary to win the war.
Best bet would be to not get involved unless the war starts threatening neighboring countries, imo.
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I kinda doubt that, but it's one of the options that's been suggested before (the only one I excluded from New Sith's options was B1 - not in the least since Syria is not in Europe NewSith
).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-symptoms.html
Syrian state television claimed it was used by rebels to stop the advance of the army using some form of containers.
But if there's one thing I don't trust as a source due to bias, it's Syrian state television. Followed by Russian television, tbh, we all know Russian reporters aren't free to work as independently from censoring as they should and independent media in Russia are hammered down a lot. Disagreeing with Putin is dangerous for the continuity of your job and company and Russia is a major arms dealer in the region and clamps on to its last sphere of influence there, so I would not consider Russian sources trustworthy at all.
However, not sure if you remember this:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-856206.html
(Respectable German newspaper)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-e...ugust-1.465402
(Israeli newspaper using der Spiegel as a source)
Which states Syria was already at the very least continuing its chemical weapons delivery system testing in august 2012, which suggests they would consider its use an option.
And why develop it in the first place, if you don't intend on or at the very least consider using it?
Originally Posted by Sirisian
Part of me kind of wishes this was a secret vote to overthrow North Korea. At least that would accomplish something with clear results.  |
A nice, decent, conventional war with China would be a bit more clean cut?