Some decent news from a dipl0matic initiative that many once decried as doomed:
The delivery of chemical agents to the Syrian port of Latakia, completed on Sunday, was the second in three days. It raised the share of Syrian chemical agents handed over for destruction to slightly more than 65 percent, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement from its headquarters in The Hague. The country has now delivered a bit more than 57 percent of its most dangerous, so-called priority one, chemicals, and 82 percent of less toxic, priority two chemicals, said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the organization.
They’re late and there’s still some compliance issues. But it would be churlish to deny that we are indeed approaching the goal set last autumn – to rid the Assad regime of chemical weapons, none of which have been used since the deal was reached. This strikes me as another issue – the ACA, for example – in which the Obama administration is routinely assailed, but where actual tangible progress continues.
The Dish 