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Originally Posted by Tchocky
I'd hope that a sufficiently hard strike will deter him from using any nerve agent he has left after it, for fear of further retaliation. Since he appears to be winning the ground war.
Air strikes and raiding parties to get the chemical weapons under control. In and out fast. I won't use the word "surgical" because that's something politicians say when they want you to think nobody gets hurt. I don't imagine this will happen straight away, if ever.
This is what I mean when i say there aren't any very good options here.
What has happened can't go unanswered, if only for the sake of where they might be used next.
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No raiding party is going to be able to secure a chemical weapons plant or even a munitions stockpile let alone 50 of them. Then secure these places for what? You can't just blow them up in place without causing major contamination of the surrounding city and countryside so you're talking heavy equipment, containment and decontamination facilities and thousands of troops and technicians just to get the stuff ready to ship out of there. That can't be done with a raid.
So we're back to a showy but ultimately harmless smack to the face of the projected winner. I just don't see that being worth the thousands of civilian casualties this could produce.