[Nikkkola]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ds-coffin.html

Mr Panetta said he would use his meetings in Tunisia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan to reinforce an international consensus that Assad must step down and allow a peaceful transition to a democratic form of government.

He said he also will continue consultations on efforts to ensure that Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons do not fall into the wrong hands.

Mr Panetta will be in Israel just days after US. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who has cast the Obama administration as too soft on Iran and insufficiently supportive of the Jewish state.


So they consider the chemical weapons in the "right hands" currently?

[LookSe]

lol it is.


And it is true ..it is in the right hands. Imagine if some semi literates or agents got hold of it? the damage they would cause?

[EmpokemyMok]

the reality is, teh west loves the syrian government and sees them as a "bulwark" against muslims taking control of their own lands and living their own way and doing what they want with their own land and resources. they support rebels only verbally to save face but we all know they love dictators when it suits them

they dont mind assad having chemical weapons but dont want rebels having them

[Narcodran]

Even if the rebels got hold of them, it's not like they have chemical or nuclear enginnering degrees to know how to work them. If they do use them, it would be against their own people...but I don't think they would. I'm more scared of foreign intelligence agents getting hold of them and unleashing it on the society to decimate the Syrian people.