Syria and the War on Chemical Warfare

Syria is known for being the country in which a sinful Saul is on his way to Damascus to persecute the Jews who recently joined the new faith called Christianity, only to be knocked down off of his horse by Jesus Christ, who transformed him from Saul into Paul. However, things have changed drastically in Syria over the past two millennia. Instead of being persecuted for joining a new religion, people today are being persecuted for wanting to have more freedom from their government. Unlike Saul, who was knocked off his horse by Jesus, the people in Damascus are being knocked off their horses by the use of chemical weapons, which left a question on everyone’s tongues and minds: who was going to stop the Assad regime?

The use of chemical weapons by the President Assad’s regime has made international headlines. It has left the international community with the daunting problem of how to resolve this issue with the least amount of bloodshed. In response to this crisis, there have been three courses of action: 1) the U.N. sent their investigators to investigate the claims of chemical weapons being used on the people of Syria, in particular the people of Damascus. However, when their investigators got there, they were shot at by what the Assad’s regime claims were terrorists; 2) The United States, France, and Great Britain decided to do a joint air strike to stop the Assad regime in using chemical weapons. Nonetheless, this ran into a problem, because neither the United States’ nor Great Britain’s people liked using military force so soon after coming out of Iraq! This delayed the United States using air strikes to stop Assad. President Obama has said he is willing to go it alone if the use of chemical weapons does not stop; 3) Russia has come up with the third and final option, which is Syria giving up all of its chemical weapons in exchange for wining a reprieve from U.S. military strikes. Russian’s President Vladimir Putin said, “The weapons plan will only succeed if Washington and its allies rule out military action” (Obama – sees- possible – breaththrough –Syria) http://news.yahoo.com/obama-sees-possible-breakthrough-syria-weapons-proposal-010203859.html. In response to this, the Foreign Minister of Syria, Malid al – Moualim, said, “Damascus was committed to the Russian initiative. We want to join the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons. We are ready to observe our obligations in accordance with the convention, including providing all information about these weapons.”(ibid)

In response to the Russian proposal, the United States Secretary of State John Kerry had this to say: “Washington believes that the proposal must be endorsed by the U.N. Security Council in order to have the confidence that this has the force it ought to have.” (ibid)

Even though the third option has not been approved by either the United States or the UN, let’s hope it is the one that they both pick and end up passing, because the alternative to this option is war, and no one wants another war!



Please stay tuned for more updates as this story continues to unfold…..

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Reported by Nadia Johnson
W.O.W Radio Blogger
September 13, 2013

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