TRANSCRIPT : Secretary of State Kerry’s remarks on Syria on Aug. 30

Our oldest ally, the French, said the regime, quote, “committed this vile action, and it is an outrage to use weapons that the community has banned for the last 90 years in all international conventions.”

It matters because if we choose to live in the world where a thug and a murderer like Bashar al-Assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity, even after the United States and our allies said no, and then the world does nothing about it, there will be no end to the test of our resolve and the dangers that will flow from those others who believe that they can do as they will.

This matters also beyond the limits of Syria’s borders. It is about whether Iran, which itself has been a victim of chemical weapons’ attacks, will now feel emboldened in the absence of action to obtain nuclear weapons.

It is about Hezbollah and North Korea and every other terrorist group or dictator that might ever again contemplate the use of weapons of mass destruction. Will they remember that the Assad regime was stopped from those weapons’ current or future use? Or will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?

Bref, ils vont bombarder.

« our oldest ally, the French » — les anglais subitement ne comptent plus ?

U.S. Releases Detailed Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack - NYTimes.com/2013/08/31/world/middleeast/syria.html

Du french fries bientôt au congrès étasunien.

A military strike against government targets would have a “dissuasion value” and push President Assad toward a negotiated “political solution” to the conflict, said Mr. Hollande, referring to France’s explicitly stated goal.

Guerres de Harem,

La France, nouvelle « plus ancienne alliée des Etats-Unis »
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/08/30/la-france-nouvelle-plus-ancienne-alliee-des-etats-unis_3469218_3218.html

Les services de renseignement ont repéré des activités que nous estimons liées à la préparation d’une attaque chimique

Si ça c’est pas une preuve détaillée , ah mais !

U.S. Releases Detailed Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/world/middleeast/syria.html

The intelligence found “activities that we assess were associated with preparations for a chemical weapons attack” in the three days before the weapons were unleashed, the summary said.

Cette phrase est absolument admirable :

This matters also beyond the limits of Syria’s borders. It is about whether Iran, which itself has been a victim of chemical weapons’ attacks, will now feel emboldened in the absence of action to obtain nuclear weapons.

C’est vraiment invraisemblable, un tel charabia. Rien n’a de sens là-dedans :
– l’Iran a été victime d’armes chimiques, donc si on ne fait rien l’Iran sera encouragée à développer des armes nucléaire
– (subliminal : ce sont les États-Unis qui ont aidé l’Irak à gazer l’Iran, donc ce sont les États-Unis qui doivent bombarder la Syrie pour faire la leçon à l’Iran)
– les armes chimiques sont le mal absolu, donc on va parler des armes nucléaires (suggérant que c’est le même genre de topo), donc ce sont les pays qui possèdent des armes nucléaires (États-Unis, France, Israël) qui sont légitimes à interdire à l’Iran d’en posséder.