04-11-2017, 10:23 PM
(04-11-2017, 06:42 PM)Mikebert Wrote: The reason I am curious is a chemical attack of this sort by the Syrian government makes no sense to me. It appears to offer no benefit to Assad while making Putin look bad and turning a neutral Trump administration into a belligerent. On the other hand it seems to make sense for regime opponents.
Given the possibility that we jumped the gun last time (which might be why Obama never carried out any airstrikes after Russia granted him a face-saving way to back down) I am not so quick to just accept our government's word that Assad was definitely responsible.
It seems to me there is a way to test this. If it really was a regime opponent who had the chemical munitions, we should see more of this.
Yes. I suspect however that where Assad is concerned, "making sense" is not something on his mind. Only cruelty and oppression has ever made sense to him. Nothing he has done makes any sense.