Syrian Gas Attack? Where’s The Proof?

Here we go again with the “Assad is using chemical weapons!” malarkey again. Senator John McCain is trying to shame America into doing the same shameful action of going off into a war over wrong allegations of NBC weapons. Gosh, John, isn’t that how we got into the Iraq War?

Now, you cannot know that chemical weapons were used without genuine laboratory analysis from actual testing. I find it very suspicious that the reports coming from Syria claim that Sarin nerve gas was used. Oh? And they know this how? By the symptoms of the victims? Guess what? The symptoms the media reports are consistent with all nerve gas exposure. They could have culled that off the internet. And how do they know it is Sarin and not Tabun or VX? They said Sarin because that’s the one everyone has heard of.

I tend to think if this had been a real nerve gas attack, there would have been a lot more dead. This is, after all, the deadliest chemical weapon on earth. The mustard and phosgene gas attacks in World War One produced a lot more casualties than this alleged nerve gas attack in Syria. And we’re talking a populated area and not a trench where the soldiers had access to gas masks.

Now, yes, it is possible this was a gas attack. But where is this any of our business to go in there and play World Cop again? Right, and how will that play out? Another war and another occupation where we are hated for overstaying our welcome. Not to mention the trouble of figuring out which faction gets to run the whole mess. Then the civil war sure to happen when the Kurds decide to carve out a nation and the faction we backed to run Syria says they won’t allow that. Not to mention, if we go in there, guess who gets to pick up the cost of rebuilding all those destroyed cities over there? This will be worse than Iraq.

No, how about we mind our own business for a change? Russia is already over there and they’re backing Assad. Why is this war-torn piece of real estate worth getting into a war with Russia over? Yes, it’s a tragedy. But what makes us think we’re going to make it any better and won’t make it worse?

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