Where Will the Chemical Weapons Go?

There is a report in the Telegraph in London that the Syrian opposition has formed a group to seize the chemical weapons stores of the Assad regime. A former general in Assad's forces who defected to the Free Syrian Army explained in the article that getting those chemical weapons is a major aim of the rebels. In other news, Israel's defense minister said that his country too was watching the chemical weapons situation closely. He left the impression that should there be a danger of those weapons falling into the hands of Hezbollah, that Israeli forces would intervene to destroy the weapons.

There are supposedly more chemical weapons in Syria than in any other country in the world. These are not rusted relics, but rather function weapons that could kill hundreds of thousands or millions of people. At first the fear was that Assad would use the weapons on the rebels as his father did during the 1980s when about 20,000 were killed. With the Assad government on the edge of the cliff and about to go over, the big question is who ends up with these weapons.

America cannot afford to let these weapons fall into the hands of terrorists. President Obama has to take time out from campaigning to figure out some way to neutralize these WMDs.