taking it away from him now will save thousands of lives in the long run.

and there is in fact nothing to suggest he would.

But knowing someone like this, who authorizes his goons to murder innocent women and children out of hatred and spite at his people wanting freedom from his iron-fisted rule? It would only be a matter of time.

Murdering families, including children, isn't bad enough for you to believe the prick would do anything to keep power?

and BTW
why can't the EAST take away his gas.
?
Not enough oil in it ?

To answer #2, the "East" is supporting his ass.

But this is way to serious....

The spewers of this nonsense are hoping for a "deterioration" in the security environment, precisely because they think it will open the door to armed intervention/occupation.

Syria appears to be more than capable of defending itself from external aggression using whatever arms are at its disposal.

I think the government has made their position on internal opposition clear - they will kill anyone who gets in their way - including children (unless you think the UN is full of shit). Are you so sure they wouldn't turn the gas on their own people?

Since when does the "West" really, ever, ever, ever need to be *forced* to invade some Mideast country? These opportunistic hypocrites are falling over themselves with glee at the idea. That should probably be more properly re-written as: "Syria: West Chomping at the Bit for any Desperate Pretense to Invade", but that's basically how most of these headlines lately should be read anyway.

> Syria: West may be forced to seize Bashar al-Assad's toxic gas stockpile

"<EnemyName> : West may be forced to seize <BadGuy> 's toxic gas stockpile"

"Naw, we have more than enough of that stuff already," you're probably thinking. Nonsense. As they have shown by hoarding money and vital raw materials, there is no such word as "enough" for these people.

-- Mal