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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1196966" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>1. Like us, the Russians are signatory to the UN convention on Chemical Weapons.</p><p></p><p>2. Like us, the Russians have renounced the use and posession of chemical weapons.</p><p></p><p>3. Like us, the Russians have spent billions of dollars on factories and equipment to <em>destroy</em> their chemical weapons stockpiles, and they have accounted for those stockpiles and allowed UN inspectors to audit them.</p><p></p><p>4. Like us, they are behind schedule on their commitment to destroy their stockpile, but this is due to the same financial, technical and enviornmental issues that we are facing. They have nukes...they dont <em>need</em> chemical weapons and it is in their best interests as well as ours to live in a world without them.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is that the Russians dont want their ally/client state using chemical weapons any more than we do, and if the threat of getting hammered with cruise missiles has motivated Assad to turn them over then its a helluva lot better than the alternative. If the Russians agree to take control of them and Assad holds a few back and winds up using them again, its the<em> Russians </em>and not us who will wind up looking like idiots. At that point...we will at least be able to say that we gave diplomacy a chance before unleashing the Tomahawks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1196966, member: 14668"] 1. Like us, the Russians are signatory to the UN convention on Chemical Weapons. 2. Like us, the Russians have renounced the use and posession of chemical weapons. 3. Like us, the Russians have spent billions of dollars on factories and equipment to [I]destroy[/I] their chemical weapons stockpiles, and they have accounted for those stockpiles and allowed UN inspectors to audit them. 4. Like us, they are behind schedule on their commitment to destroy their stockpile, but this is due to the same financial, technical and enviornmental issues that we are facing. They have nukes...they dont [I]need[/I] chemical weapons and it is in their best interests as well as ours to live in a world without them. The bottom line is that the Russians dont want their ally/client state using chemical weapons any more than we do, and if the threat of getting hammered with cruise missiles has motivated Assad to turn them over then its a helluva lot better than the alternative. If the Russians agree to take control of them and Assad holds a few back and winds up using them again, its the[I] Russians [/I]and not us who will wind up looking like idiots. At that point...we will at least be able to say that we gave diplomacy a chance before unleashing the Tomahawks. [/QUOTE]
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