Archive for September, 2013

Upholding the norm against chemical weapons

Posted on: September 9th, 2013 by Ernie Regehr

The rationale for an American attack on Syria has come down to a single argument. If chemical weapons use is not met with immediate and lethal reprisals, the norm against such heinous attacks will erode, leaving Bashar al-Assad and dictators like him free to use chemical weapons with impunity. But does that argument hold up?

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Cruise Missiles or Conference Tables for Syria?

Posted on: September 2nd, 2013 by Ernie Regehr

Of all the evidence and broad assertions offered in US Secretary of State John Kerry’s public briefing on chemical weapons use in Syria,[i] none is more reliable than his admission that “there is no ultimate military solution.”

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