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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
Saddam is gone. What would've been Syria's political motivation to take on those weapons, especially since we invaded one country already to find them?
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Syria's political motivation was to make the US look absurd in not finding the weapons, being that Syria was one of the countries that was trying to avoid the war. They wanted them to look as if the US was very wrong and to discredit the US on an international, political level.
Syria doesn't fear invasion -- it hasn't invaded their neighbors and they have been playing diplomatic games well lately (even withdrawing from Lebanon).
They have nothing to lose because moving chemicals across a border in trucks is not difficult to do, and they have no threat of invasion and
even if they were invaded, they would deny they knew anything about it being that the borders are very porous, as shown by Jihadis pouring across the borders right after the 2003 invasion.
They gain an international political victory at no price, and theoretically secure themselves a better position to do what they want if the US is discredited.
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