NP - Chemical Weapons Used in Syria... (or WERE they?)

[Joseph Tracy]

Assessments have been wrong or lies before as in Libya and Iraq.. I did provide dissenting voices and their reasons, as  has Thomas many times while Morris relies on the dubious authority of the belligerent US  with its long history of calls for regime change, and its compliant friends.  While it seems highly dubious that Assad would make such a stupid move for such trivial military benefit, I am happy to concede that proof of this coud be persuasively set forth with neutral investigators. So far that has not happened and the much biggr problem is the international response. After all the UN mechanism for response to such an action is not a military assault by the US.    

 While many Syrians legitimately hate Assad as an authoritarian bully, there have never been any organized moderate rebels with military power.( That according to our own military assessments) The various groups seizing territory in Syria have been murderous extremists and the US and Saudis have funded and armed them. As their rebellion is in the final stages of failure it is not the least unlikely that they did a chemical weapons attack to blame Assad, bring in the US and prolong the fight. Seymour Hersch made a strong case that this was the nature of the first chemical weapons incident.

War crimes in this region have been going on for decades with the US a chief violator. Why are you so eager to see more war? What good have these wars done?  It just looks like a hangover from extreme Hillary support,  like anger channeled toward hate and violence.