Obsene Russian-Syrian Charade Gets More Grotesque

The UN chemical weapons inspectors just turned in their report to the Secretary General on their investigation of the August 21 sarin gas slaughter in Syria. Even though, as per their instructions, they do not say who launched the attack, but merely present the evidence they gathered, it is clear that Assad did it. The rockets carrying the gas were launched from his military's positions, the rocket fragments recovered were his munitions.

So today the Russians are insisting they have "evidence" that the rebels did it. They're still on that. (What evidence? They don't say. These are the same guys who were recently demanding that the U.S. produce its evidence that Assad did it, which he obviously did.)

So much for this bullshit "framework" under which the lying scum of the Assad regime and their ultracynical Russian enablers are supposed to hand over Assad's chemical arsenal. Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

Meanwhile, Assad has plenty of useful idiots in the West on both the left and the right (including the far left and the far right in the good ole U.S. of A.) running interference for him to stave off any military attack by the U.S., which they call "war." As if there isn't a real war going on in Syria right now.

By the way, the U.S. has employed limited military force hundreds (if not thousands) of times in the past two centuries, almost never with a Congressional declaration of war. The third President of the U.S., Thomas Jefferson, sent a naval fleet to the Mediterranean to wage a war against the Barbary pirate states that had been seizing ships and their crews for ransom. Congress didn't "authorize" it or declare war that time, either. And as far as "international law" is concerned, if it is illegal for the U.S. to destroy Assad's air force, then let the UN police come and arrest the U.S. and put the U.S. in jail.

The main "law" of global affairs is the law of the jungle, Might Makes Right. It should be on a more civilized level than that, but it isn't yet. So if a sadistic beast like Assad can commit atrocities, the U.S. or whoever can make him pay for it, if they feel like it. People who have a problem with that have their heads up their asses morally speaking, at best. (However many of the defenders of course are active agents of the Assad regime, which is a type of creature even worse.)

Too bad John Kerry isn't president. He at least talks like he'd actually strike, if he had his druthers.