Israel says Syria chemical weapons are secure for now

How are the chemical weapons secure from Hezbollah if the regime that maintains the chemical weapons and Hezbollah are allies?

They can't be thrilled with the possibility of having al Qaeda with chemical weapons on their border. Now Israel is no doubt planning an invasion. What a mess.

We're allies with Turkey and Cesko. Doesn't mean Erdogan or Klaus can just waltz into the US and carry off a bunch of nuclear weapons.

On the one hand, moving them constitutes possible preparations for use. (Of course it does. Then again, preparations don't require moving them, so leaving them in the warehouse could also constitute preparation for use.)

But since it's Assad, those who want him gone at any cost figure that any touching of the weapons must be with ill intent. What other possibility could there possibly be? None, of course.

Of course, once he's gone there's the question of who'll get them. We've seen in Libya and Syria that those who take over a military base and claim the spoils aren't always those who actually are progressive in the Western political sense of the word.


Those who actually stand the greatest chances of suffering from having them fall into the wrong hands tend to be a little less sensationalistic. Movement can constitute consolidation and securing. Sure, he might use them. But since he hasn't, some of the preparations are "dual use" but others are clearly towards protecting them, well, the "dual use" preparations are also likely to be for the purposes of safeguarding them.

The real danger is that the people who are decidedly not "progressive" (again, in the Western political sense of the word) will get them. Then all the decrying of collateral damage as intentional massacre might well be replaced with, well, intentional massacre and claims of "who could have predicted this?"

What could possibly go wrong?