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The Syrian government has once again been accused of attacking a rebel-held area with chemical weapons:
A suspected Syrian government chemical attack killed scores of people, including children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a monitoring group, medics and rescue workers in the rebel-held area said.
The Syrian military denied responsibility and said it would never use chemical weapons.
The head of the health authority in rebel-held Idlib said more than 50 people had been killed and 300 wounded. The Union of Medical Care Organizations, a coalition of international aid agencies that funds hospitals in Syria, said at least 100 people had died.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack killed at least 58 people and was believed to have been carried out by Syrian government jets. It caused many people to choke, and some to foam at the mouth.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer blamed the attack on the "weakness and irresolution" of the previous U.S. administration.
Also at BBC, NYT, Fox News, the Washington Post, and The Hill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @05:51AM
You have that completely backwards.
The arming of Syrian revolutionaries by the west wasn't even close to sufficient to make a difference. The dangling of possible support was.
That's why the revolutionaries were constantly begging for support that never came.
Eventually that lack of support drove them into the arms of ISIS who were glad to support them for their own ends. The revolutionaries were desperate and so any port in a storm. The price for cooperating with ISIS was (a) changing the conflict from a broad-based secular revolt into a sectarian sunni vs alawite fight and (b) loss of public support by all the people who abhor ISIS not the least of which were normal sunnis.
The question of whether arming the revolutionaries would have been sufficient for them to prevail must go unanswered. But claiming clinton caused the problem by arming them is just cherry-picking ignorance fueled by bias.