I still have a step 0 objection to the chemical weapon theory. Why bother with chemical weapons? They're a pain in the ass and they'll make everyone mad at you. Just use HE or incendiaries. It's like deciding to insult someone by shooting their mother instead of just flipping them off. Same result but why give yourself the extra grief?
And then Assad immediately complies with demands to turn over any and all remaining gas in the country anyway, so it must not have even been militarily important if he was willing to use it once to kill some civvies then turn around and immediately dismantle it all.
I still have a step 0 objection to the chemical weapon theory. Why bother with chemical weapons? They're a pain in the ass and they'll make everyone mad at you. Just use HE or incendiaries. It's like deciding to insult someone by shooting their mother instead of just flipping them off. Same result but why give yourself the extra grief?
And then Assad immediately complies with demands to turn over any and all remaining gas in the country anyway, so it must not have even been militarily important if he was willing to use it once to kill some civvies then turn around and immediately dismantle it all.