Too good to be true: on the deal on Syria’s chemical disarmament

... destroyed practically all evidence of the attack they were to inspect. (He must have forgotten something: the UN convoy was shot on by unidentified snipers after leaving their hotel on the first day of the mission.) No; one cannot make a bona fide deal with Assad. He quite probably wants to avoid punishment, but hold on to at least some of his chemical weapons. This agreement might allow him to. He could have already spread his stockpile out over hundreds of different sites across Syria. He could have hidden some well. He could even have had some transferred to Lebanon by way of his allies,...