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NCRI –\u00a0Last week, dozens of innocent civilians were killed in a chemical weapons attack in Syria. A large number of those who died were women and children.
What makes this attack all the more incomprehensible is that the Obama administration, just a few years earlier, has bragged about how it had managed to strip Syrian dictator Bashar as Assad of all his chemical weapons.<\/p>\n
This alone raises even more questions about the Iran nuclear deal that was agreed in 2015 under the Obama administration. At the time, President Obama said that the US would finally be able to keep an eye on Iran\u2019s activities. He said: \u201cWe will, for the first time, be in a position to verify all of [Iran\u2019s] commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, many opponents of the nuclear said that the US would not be able to keep tabs on Iran\u2019s full range of nuclear activities. It is just as clear now that the Obama administration were unable to get Syria to turn over all its chemical weapons.<\/p>\n
The deal with Syria enabled President Obama to avoid humiliation after he failed to enforce the \u201cred line\u201d he has drawn for Syria following President Assad\u2019s use of chemical weapons in an attack in his country. The Syrian President had used sarin gas \u2013 a nerve agent \u2013 that killed around 1,500 civilians.
At the time, President Obama boasted that the United States had managed to get chemical weapons out of the country without having to launch a strike against it. Echoing Obama\u2019s statement, the former National Security Adviser Susan Rice reiterated earlier this year that the US was \u201cable to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile\u201d again emphasising that they were able to do it without the use of force. She said it was done in a way \u201cthat the use of force would never have accomplished\u201d.<\/p>\n