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Arab states, should demand as a condition of support that the weapons immediately be placed under control of international monitors from the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and plans developed for their destruction. Hopefully, Syria's new leaders will have genuine legitimacy and will not need to prop up their credibility at home by clinging to these barbaric weapons.
Leonard Spector is executive director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Washington, DC, office and formerly served as assistant deputy administrator for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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