Brittany Brooks
Blog 9
11/7/13
8:00 pm
It was this week that Syria’s ability to produce
chemical weapons has been destroyed and its remaining toxic armaments secured.
Assad has offered unexpectedly robust cooperation this far. Eliminating Mr. Assad’s
ability to use chemical weapons is the biggest accomplishment this far. There are
1,290 tons of declared weapons that need to be destroyed within in the midst of
a civil war that is happening in the country currently. However, even in the
midst of all of everything that is happening, Syria has met all of their
commitments and deadlines. The country’s cooperation makes Mr. Assad look credible
thus far. The chemical weapons situation is supposed to be done my mid 2014
which created the expectation that Mr. Assad would remain in office until at
least then. Although Mr. Assad has seemed to be credible thus far, he is still
being held responsible for what happened and all the suffering Syrians. A big
milestone has taken place but no Syrians have been brought relief. United
Nations officials have visited all of Syria’s 41 facilities except for two due
to the fact they were not safe. Currently there is no more inspection
activities planned.
Clearly Mr. Assad is attempting to regain some sort
of credibility. Although they claim that they are not following through on
their word because of threat, they are still allowing the chemical weapons to
be destroyed without ruckus. This is a very big milestone complete for Syria
but much is still to be done for the Syrian people. The United Nations cannot
forget the bigger picture here. This all started because of the innocent men,
women, and children that were killed. There definitely needs to be focus on
destroying of the chemical weapons in Syria’s possession but there needs to be
just as much focus on the Syrian people as well. Thousands of people are in
need of aid. This job will not be complete until the suffering Syrian people
are helped.
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