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After you have familiarized yourself with a little history my comments will make perfect sense to you. The way we got Egypt to lay off our ally was to make them our ally. Assad is not a fundamentalist and if he felt he could count on the US the same way the Suadis Turks, Egyptians, Kuwaitis do we would have ample influence to keep him from using chemical weapons. Instead we are arming Jihadis who are fundamentalists that we will have little influence on no matter what we do.
Again, bro, you did not lay down a clear path on what you want to do. If you can't figure out what a simple lay out is, how can anyone take your accusations of backdoor deals seriously? "Look at how the US dealt with a problem". You didn't say lets do that, you didn't outline how we'd do that. You just threw some words together and were glad it made a sentence the might reflect your opinion.
Without a clearly defined problem and resolution you're doomed to failure. I guess I better start to show you an example:
The issue:
Chemical Weapons are being used.
What to do to fix it:
Ensure chemical weapons are not an option.
How to do it:
1. Work politically with leaders of the world to remove said chemical weapons
1a. First, ensure that they're playing be the same rules as the rest of the world(Done. Syria, apparently, has signed the chemical weapons convention, or is still working on that)
1b. Make sure that these weapons are removed in a timely and expedient manner(This is where we are.)
1c. Get the heck out, and allow a sovereign nation to have a civil war of their own
It's really that simple. And I feel like this is reasonable. And it's what's happening right now.
So if that's happening, what's the hang up at this point?
Well, France, big mouth/no balls, proposes a chapter 7 resolution, which allows and possibly encourages the use of force to remove these weapons. The US, as world police, back them up, as we view Chemical Weapons as WMD's, and are pretty touchy with that(see; Iran). I don't see a timeline really written out, but apparently it's been put at 15 days. It also leaves the door wide open to invade surrounding countries, which I feel like is the bigger issue with 7, and a piece of how you have chosen to tie this all in with your league of masterminds.
Russia feels as if this should be treated as chapter 6, which is a peaceful removal of the chemical weapons without the show or threat of force. If Syria then doesn't comply appropriately, we can strike without sending them a nasty gram first, but in either case doesn't impose a timeline.
I can see both sides of this, but I'm leaning towards chapter 6 -So long as we can set time lines for identification of the CW facilities, beginning of physical removal of these weapons, the end of the physical removal of these weapons, and the destruction of the facilities built to create these weapons, I desire chapter six.
I do not desire a conflict. The stakes here are very high, and the timelines do have to be strict and expedient. In the event Syria falls short by even one minute, we should make sure they regret it.
But we have to give the chance.