13.09 View From the Global Tank: What Would Don Fanucci Say on Using Missiles to Coerce Assad?
My belief in serendipity has been renewed by US Secretary of State John Kerrys offhand suggestion on September 9 that Syrian President Bashar Assad could avert US military strikes by turning over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week.
That remark, which came in response to a question from a CBS reporter in London, might have been something Kerry had not quite thought through, given how quickly his subordinates in Foggy Bottom sought to discount the remarks, arguing that their boss was making a "rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used."
