They gave up most but not all of their “declared” stockpile. And more to the point, they “surrendered weapons, not weapons scientists.”

Ha, thanks. The others already exist (duckling, giraffe, etc.), but I’m trying to get “the lion without a chin” to catch on.

The ugly truth is that Syrians can’t look to the U.S. for help.

I also doubt Assad has nerve agents

Thanks for using your real name here, Ivan.

Shukran ya habibi.

He’s making sense to me.

Okay, thanks for explaining Syria to me. I’m always ever so grateful to Westerners who do that.

If we’re going to act because of the use of chemical weapons — and something tells me you’d like us to be acting regardless of whether they were used — we can’t do so absent verified proof of their use.

The faster Assad and Russia can exterminate the rebels, the faster the war will be won and civilian deaths will stop.

You have no clue what the fuck’s going on in Syria.

I have no love for Assad

despite the fact that it makes about zero sense for him to have done so at this stage in the game

Yep. Anything you do in Syria, Rami gets some of the money. And we would dearly love to see him go driving right off a damn cliff. (There were a lot of jokes about hoping to see Bashar die in a car crash, too, during that very Honda trip.)

“ the only medicine factory in syria”

Oh, speaking of his hiding out in Iran or Lebanon (more likely the former), Syrian state TV today ran footage of him entering the presidential palace, to show that he’s unharmed and determined and unbeaten and blah blah blah.

I’ve seen Kurds from Halabja rightly making the same point.

No one wants a US invasion. But people welcomed the airstrikes. It’s odd to see people in Daraa praising the US Air Force, let me tell you.