Syria and Chem warfare, UN now investigating

[=sw=warlord]

I'm not sure who else has been following this but Syria is in neck deep at the moment as far as the UN is concerned.
Apparently the US and UK have been discussing with Russia what to do over reports of chemical weapons being used on civilians.
Just wondering if anyone has a TL'DR to explain how it's all built to this?

[neuro]

Burn the US and Israel.

edit:
Burn the UK too, fucking US-ass-buddies

[=sw=warlord]

it's the political class in the UK who seem to chum up to the US Gov, rest of the country is almost polar opposite especially after the NSA bullshit.

[rossmum]

Woohoo time for more UN-aided imperialism I can't wait!!!!

Chemical weapons suck ass but so does giving the US a fucking excuse.

[Zeph]

Keep in mind that the same guy book thumping that syria has used them is the same guy that was going nuts saying that hussein had wmds and was going to use them if we didn't step in first. There's an agenda somewhere for someone to make a profit. There are places far worse off that would benefit from american aid, but the western world is focused on the video music awards, I mean syria. Russia is saying that the west has no proof and no way to have proof and pushing their way into syria would be repeating the same mistake they did back in 2003.

tl;dr american politician who used wmd's as a threat to push a war against iraq is doing the same thing, but replacing wmds with chemical weapons and iraq with syria.


edit: oh and I forgot. The documents that "prove" the weapons have been used are classified and a state secret. You can't know about them because that would mean you know the capabilities of the nation's intelligence operations and would make you an enemy of the state.

[Patrickssj6]

germany (right now) is stepping out of this. thanks for (right now) sanity.

[Bodzilla]

Innocent untill proven guilty works for our justice system, so why not for international politics and war?

If the evidence is actually fucking there this time then lets see it before we do another thing thats incredibly fucking stupid.

[TVTyrant]

Chemical weapons aren't even that bad. The reason people have a problem with them is they're not as obvious as other acts that do similar amounts of damage.

That said, I don't like the idea of the US getting involved in this mess, and I feel bad that we will get other countries pulled into this conflict. I didn't like it when I was 11 and I don't like it now.

[Bodzilla]

so you'd say you dont loike it

[n00b1n8R]

Chemical weapons aren't even that bad. The reason people have a problem with them is they're not as obvious as other acts that do similar amounts of damage.

Chemical weapons are that bad. The reason people don't think they are is that they're not as obvious as other acts that do similar amounts of damage.

At any rate, NATO has been itching for years to get the chance to liberate the fuck out of kebab. I personally can't wait for them to invade without clear evidence from weapon inspectors again. Why wouldn't you want to piss off Russia when US-Russian relations at at a 20 year low already

All aboard the draft train, thanks Obama!