Wow, honestly i never even saw this coming.....
Surely obama will wave his fist menacingly from the sidelines to show assad he means business,
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday morning that Syria will likely miss the first deadline in the just-brokered deal to capture and destroy the countryâs chemical weapons to avoid a U.S.-led military retaliation.
According to the deal agreed to in Geneva last Saturday, the country had seven days to submit an inventory of its chemical weapons stockpiles for inspection. Syria indicated it would not have the information ready by this Saturday, and the State Department said it would not demand the inventory on the deadline.
The Times said it was unclear whether Syria had simply not gotten the necessary materials together fast enough, or whether this was a sign of resistance to the deal itself.
Secretary of State John Kerry had placed emphasis on the strict deadlines as a test of Syriaâs commitment to the deal. âWe agreed that Syria must submit within a weekânot in 30 days, but in one weekâa comprehensive listing,â Kerry said last Saturday, adding that the U.S. would tolerate âno games, no room for avoidance, or anything less than full compliance.â
The deal between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was reached after a tense two weeks in which President Barack Obama made the case to Congress for military actionâa campaign that ended, oddly, with Russia taking up a hypothetical voiced by Kerry that missile strikes could be averted if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad surrendered his chemical weapons. The subsequent deal to remove chemical weapons from Assadâs possession has come under heavy scrutiny, both for the difficulty of accounting for chemical weapons in the midst of a civil war, and for the trust it places in Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Surely obama will wave his fist menacingly from the sidelines to show assad he means business,
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday morning that Syria will likely miss the first deadline in the just-brokered deal to capture and destroy the countryâs chemical weapons to avoid a U.S.-led military retaliation.
According to the deal agreed to in Geneva last Saturday, the country had seven days to submit an inventory of its chemical weapons stockpiles for inspection. Syria indicated it would not have the information ready by this Saturday, and the State Department said it would not demand the inventory on the deadline.
The Times said it was unclear whether Syria had simply not gotten the necessary materials together fast enough, or whether this was a sign of resistance to the deal itself.
Secretary of State John Kerry had placed emphasis on the strict deadlines as a test of Syriaâs commitment to the deal. âWe agreed that Syria must submit within a weekânot in 30 days, but in one weekâa comprehensive listing,â Kerry said last Saturday, adding that the U.S. would tolerate âno games, no room for avoidance, or anything less than full compliance.â
The deal between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was reached after a tense two weeks in which President Barack Obama made the case to Congress for military actionâa campaign that ended, oddly, with Russia taking up a hypothetical voiced by Kerry that missile strikes could be averted if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad surrendered his chemical weapons. The subsequent deal to remove chemical weapons from Assadâs possession has come under heavy scrutiny, both for the difficulty of accounting for chemical weapons in the midst of a civil war, and for the trust it places in Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
