Syria: Assad-regime apparently willing to surrender & destroy chemical weapons

[Silent Hunter]

Wait, I thought Obama's strike proposals were pointless and weren't going to accomplish anything?

This won't save lives. Syrians will just kill each other with more bombs and bullets.

You can't do mass killing as easily with those. This seems a decent proposal and Assad should take it.

[Silent Hunter]

Hard to tell if this is sincere or just delaying tactics by the Russians, but at least it seems our threats are working. If only the True Leftists and the teabaggers would stop competing to see who could most thoroughly undermine our foreign policy...

If the purpose was to give the Russians a bigger role in the Middle East, it worked perfectly. 

A bit more seriously, it is a bit better than air strikes. 

Indeed. Assad knows that while he can retaliate, there is no way he can prevent a US/French attack from doing serious damage to his forces.

[Silent Hunter]

And at one time Neville Chamberlain was hailed as one of Britain's greatest PMs.  If this works, fine and dandy, but it's way too soon for Obama to be planning his second Peace Prize speech.

The Second World War wasn't Chamberlain's fault. Baldwin could have stopped Hitler in 1936.

[Silent Hunter]

I really don't think this will fix it. I hope I'm wrong.

And even if it does fix the chemical weapons problem... there's still the fact that the Assad regime has killed over 100,000 of its own people by "ordinary" means. The method of mass murder should not matter when a government is being judged. We should still intervene, Assad should still go.

So should we should start intervening everywhere in the world where people are being killed then?

Not everywhere, but in the worst cases. Rwanda and Cambodia could have been prevented.