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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1197124" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Israel has never <em>used</em> chemical or nuclear weapons, even during the opening days of the Yom Kippur war when they were getting their asses kicked by the Syrians in the Golan Heights and their population centers were in danger of being overrun by Syrian armored columns. Im not saying the Israelis are saints, but they do go to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties during military operations, up to the point of putting their own pilots at risk by warning civilians to flee ahead of time in areas about to be bombed. Israel signed <em>and has honored </em>its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, and has made numerous overtures to the Syrian government that have been rejected. While reasonable people can certainly disagree with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, it is intellectually dishonest to compare the humanitarian policies of Israel to those of the Syrian regime.</p><p></p><p>And as far as chemical weapons go....yes we are behind on our commitment to destroy our own chemical weapon stockpiles (as are the Russians), but this is solely due to enviornmental and technical difficulties. The key issue here is <em>transparency</em>. We have signed the treaty, we have inventoried and declared our stockpile to the UN, and we are working <em>in good faith</em> to eliminate it. The same holds true for the Russians. The reality is that chemical weapons are universally reviled by the military, they are dirty and dangerous weapons that pose almost as much risk to those deploying them as they do to their intended targets. This is the reason why chemical weapons were <em>never used</em> on the battlefield during WWII even though both sides posessed huge stockpiles of them. In the modern era, as nations with vast arsenals of precision-guided <em>nuclear</em> weapons at our disposal, neither we or the Russians have any <em>need</em> for chemical weapons and it is both of our nations best interests to see that the Syrian regime is never able to use them again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1197124, member: 14668"] Israel has never [I]used[/I] chemical or nuclear weapons, even during the opening days of the Yom Kippur war when they were getting their asses kicked by the Syrians in the Golan Heights and their population centers were in danger of being overrun by Syrian armored columns. Im not saying the Israelis are saints, but they do go to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties during military operations, up to the point of putting their own pilots at risk by warning civilians to flee ahead of time in areas about to be bombed. Israel signed [I]and has honored [/I]its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, and has made numerous overtures to the Syrian government that have been rejected. While reasonable people can certainly disagree with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, it is intellectually dishonest to compare the humanitarian policies of Israel to those of the Syrian regime. And as far as chemical weapons go....yes we are behind on our commitment to destroy our own chemical weapon stockpiles (as are the Russians), but this is solely due to enviornmental and technical difficulties. The key issue here is [I]transparency[/I]. We have signed the treaty, we have inventoried and declared our stockpile to the UN, and we are working [I]in good faith[/I] to eliminate it. The same holds true for the Russians. The reality is that chemical weapons are universally reviled by the military, they are dirty and dangerous weapons that pose almost as much risk to those deploying them as they do to their intended targets. This is the reason why chemical weapons were [I]never used[/I] on the battlefield during WWII even though both sides posessed huge stockpiles of them. In the modern era, as nations with vast arsenals of precision-guided [I]nuclear[/I] weapons at our disposal, neither we or the Russians have any [I]need[/I] for chemical weapons and it is both of our nations best interests to see that the Syrian regime is never able to use them again. [/QUOTE]
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