I normally try to answer my own questions rather than asking the community to do it, but things are hectic around here lately. So, here’s a challenge. Find out when the UN inspectors arrived in Syria (I believe it was eight days ago) and what three suspected chemical attacks they were scheduled to investigate, and the dates of those attacks. I ask because I just read this Reuters article that suggests it is already too late to investigate the chemical attack that occurred five days ago. A sampling…
Syria agreed on Sunday to allow the inspectors to visit the site. The United States and its allies say evidence has been destroyed by government shelling of the area over the past five days, and the Syrian offer to allow inspectors came too late…
…In London, Foreign Secretary William Hague said evidence of a chemical attack could have already been destroyed by subsequent artillery shelling in the areas or degraded in the days following the strike.
“We have to be realistic now about what the U.N. team can achieve,” he told reporters.
I am interested to know why the UN inspectors were sent to Syria to investigate suspected chemical attacks that took place months ago but any investigation of an attack from last week is hopeless and worthless.
If the evidence decays so quickly then the original inspections were hopeless and worthless. We proles may be stupid, but this doesn’t even pass the sniff test.
