I know you are as shocked as I am right? Syria is going to miss their Obama/Kerry imposed deadline of destroying it’s chemical weapons. Syria was supposed to transport the chemicals used in making the weapons to the port of Latakia, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. There is where the chemicals would be destroyed. Problem is, it ain’t happening.
The next step was to transport the chemicals used in making the weapons to the port of Latakia, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, from where they could be transported to their destruction.
The problem is that the second part of the process is, shall we say, not proceeding in “record time.”
I don’t expect that Kerry’s urging will do anything, but it’s a step that at least he acknowledges that there’s a problem. However, comments from two unidentified Western diplomats are very disturbing:
The first tells us that Assad is simply doing the minimum required to avoid being deemed to be in violation. The second tells us that he’s using his leverage, because of the value placed on the Geneva talks. It sounds like Assad has learned his lesson that the West would rather talk and agree than fight.
No doubt his sponsors in Tehran are paying attention.