At least forty thousand people have lost their lives to date during the 21 month war in Syria. The war has turned into a life-and-death struggle between the barbarian Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and its barbarian Islamist adversaries. Every day brings fresh evidence of atrocities committed by both sides.  Innocent civilians living within Syria and the surrounding region are caught in the middle.

The latest outrage is the Assad regime’s reported preparation ofchemical weapons for use in wiping out its enemies, irrespective of civilian casualties, as a last resort to stave off the regime’s collapse.

Syria has loaded deadly sarin gas materials into chemical warheads. All that remains is an order by Assad to load the warheads onto dozens of fighter bombers and launch an attack on the rebel forces.

Sarin is the same lethal chemicalagent that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein used to kill 5,000 Kurds with one attack in 1988.  Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer was quoted as telling CNN that a Syrian city such as Homs, with a population of about a million people, could lose a third of the people in a few hours from a chemical attack.

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have warned the Syrian regime that the use of chemical weapons would constitute a “red line” for which there would be severe consequences. But whatever consequences the Obama administration has in mind may well be too late to save thousands of civilians from the lethal consequences of a chemical attack.

Russia is reportedly softening its support for Assad because of the chemical weapons threat and has been conducting talks with the United States on possible diplomatic moves to help ease Assad from power.  Secretary of State Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavro met with UN Special Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on December 6th in Dublin to discuss whether there was a viable path forward for a political transition in Syria as proposed by Brahimi.

In his statement to the press following the Dublin meeting, Brahmi said:

“I have taken the opportunity of this conference to ask the Foreign Ministers of the United States and Russia to get together with me to discuss the very, very, very bad situation in Syria.

I am discussing this situation with all the countries that I call that have influence and interest or both – and definitely this is the case for Russia and the United States.

“We have discussed therefore the situation in Syria and we have also talked a little bit about how we can work out, hopefully, a process that will get Syria back from the brink, to put together a peace process…”

The bottom line, however, was that there were no “sensational decisions” reached at the meeting.

Given the chemical warfare threat, the U.S. may not wait for a diplomatic solution. The London Times reports that the Obama administration is “ready to launch military action in Syria ‘within days’ if President Assad resorts to mobilising chemical weapons in an attempt to repel rebel forces trying to seize Damascus.”

Assad is only one side of the barbarian equation. The Obama administration has backed the arming of rebel groups in Syria through channels set up by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, even though we did not know whether the recipients were friends or foes.  According to a front page article in the New York Times on December 6th, the administration is finally waking up to the fact that some of these weapons are ending up in the hands of Islamic jihadists:

“The Obama administration did not initially raise objections when Qatar began shipping arms to opposition groups in Syria, even if it did not offer encouragement, according to current and former administration officials. But they said the United States has growing concerns that, just as in Libya, the Qataris are equipping some of the wrong militants.”

The jihadists will inevitably turn those weapons against the “infidels” in Syria and against us, as happened after the Obama administration looked the other way when Islamic jihadists in Libya were armed during the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The difference in Syria is that the danger does not end with standard conventional weapons in the hands of al Qaeda fighters seeking to topple the Assad regime. They may get their hands on the Assad regime’s chemical weapons if the regime crumbles.

The Obama administration is finally waking up to this danger as well.  “Our concerns are that an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons,  or might lose control of them to one of the many groups that are now operating within Syria,” Secretary of State Clinton said at the conclusion of NATO ministerial meetings in Brussels this week.

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