Is President Bashar Al-Assad being tricked into creating circumstances
that will hand the Obama White House a justification for war, or is the
plan for Syria's chemical weapons to be destroyed a geopolitical master
stroke that will avert a regional conflict?
Syria's Foreign
Minister Walid Muallem today formally accepted a Russian proposal --
first mooted by John Kerry -- for Syria to hand its chemical arsenal
over to international control in a bid to avoid a US military attack.
