WHAT?  YOU MEAN THERE'S CHEATING GOING ON? – AT 9:52 A.M. ET:  We make international agreements, then we tend to forget them, assuming they're working. 

Remember how we almost went to war against Syria last year after we discovered the regime had used chemical weapons?  War was avoided when the peace-loving Russians held Obama's hand and guided him to an agreement with the Syrians to end the crisis and end the Syrian chemical program.  All going well with Syria, ay?  Not so fast, buddy.  From The Times of Israel: 

Syria is accelerating its production of missiles and rockets, effectively circumventing international sanctions imposed on it, according to the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly.

The magazine, which deals with military and security matters, presented evidence that the regime has upgraded its weapons capacity with the assistance of countries including Iran, North Korea and Belarus.

Jane’s reported that the Syria Scientific Studies and Research Center is responsible for the production of chemical weapons in Syria and oversees most of the regime’s missile projects. Yet according to the magazine, officials in the international community, including the UN, Russia and the United States, do not supervise the operations of the research center and have not imposed specific sanctions on it.

Jane’s added that although Syria has begun the process of destroying its chemical weapons arsenal, the SSRC still possesses the requisite knowledge to produce a host of warheads containing deadly chemical elements, including sarin, VX and Yperite.

The report reveals that the Assad regime has gone back to producing missiles and medium- to long-range rockets at a rate similar to that prior to the start of the country’s brutal civil war in March 2011. The two main reasons for the regime’s enhanced weapons production are an increased need for missiles in order to combat opposing rebel forces, and Hezbollah’s desire to acquire rockets and missiles stationed on Syrian soil.

COMMENT:  Looks like they're having us for lunch...again.  And why not?  These rogue regimes have learned one of the classic lessons of international diplomacy – when your opponent is weak, exploit that weakness.  America, through the design of the most leftist administration in its history, is weak.  It is getting weaker.  Syria saw us cave in after we were preparing to strike.  Iran saw us cave in and sign a weak agreement on nuclear weapons with the Tehran government.  North Korea saw us constantly weak as we threatened dire consequences if that country developed an atomic bomb.  It went ahead and developed it.  Nothing happened to North Korea.

And our allies see us weak.  Some, in the Mideast, are starting to get cozy with Iran, as we deliver the big chill.

January 28, 2014