U.S.: Chemical Weapons, Hypocrisy and a Forgotten History
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
- J. Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972.
Since the fairy tale about weapons of mass destruction that can be launched against Western targets "within forty five minutes" is well past it's sell by date, the trans-Atlantic hasbara industry has dreamed up a new Grim Reaper for Syria, their latest quarry: chemical weapons.
Stephen Zunes succinct quote that: "U.S. policy regarding chemical weapons has been so inconsistent and politicized that the United States is in no position to take leadership in response to any use of such weaponry by Syria" [1] hits the chemical warhead on the nose cone.
Never mind Israel's lethal stockpiles, for ever, seemingly, blind eye territory, as apparently is the United States 5,449 metric tons chemical weapons arsenal, which cannot be disposed of until at least 2021 due to the hazards involved (Japan Times, 12th September 2013.).
However the storm troopers of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) joined the other insurgents in Syria and in under a month: " ... completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities and mixing/filling plants, rendering them inoperable."[2]
President Assad, his country, this year alone, being five times an illegal target of Israel's fearsome destructive power from just across the Golan Heights[3] stated that his weapons were purely defensive - to use the cold war adage, a balance of terror.
All nations have the legal right to self-defence - unless they are majority Muslim, it would seem.