Inform the Assad regime that the next use of weapons of mass destruction— i.e. chemical weapons—-will be responded to with US use of our own weapons of mass destruction to annihilate his stockpile.
The reason why Saddam didn’t use his chemical weapons during Iraqi Freedom was due to the fact that he knew Baghdad would go up in smoke if he did so.
Tigerace117:
Perhaps you're having a bad day and spoke impetuously or perhaps you really meant what you said as quoted above. I don't know.
Some questions for you, given your above stated desire to use WMDs against suspected stores of Syrian WMDs in response to alleged strikes by the Assad Regime by initiating US attacks of reprisal against a state with which you are not at war:
First, assuming for the moment that the Assad Regime has in its possession chemical WMDs, other than industrial-grade chlorine, would the regime be stupid enough to concentrate such weapons in targetable stockpiles or would it disperse such weapons in smaller caches where they will be hard to hit? Would it place those stockpiles or caches where foreign weapon systems could reach them without doing horrendous collateral damage to innocent Syrians, other internationals communities and Russians in Syria? Keep in mind those would be suspected caches and stockpiles. What happens if you are conned and hit dummy caches intentionally placed to trick foreign states willing to use force and to discredit them by doing great damage to civilian populations? Remember, you're not at war with Syria.
What do you do if American planners find that suspected stockpile or cache sites are near Russian personnel or either Russian military or civilian infrastructure? Are you willing to risk starting a war with the world's second most powerful nuclear-armed state and to have been the power of record to first-strike using NBC weapons?
So you are saying that it is not acceptable for the Syrian Regime to use WMDs in war but it is acceptable for the United States and possibly its allies to do so? How exceptional of you. Furthermore is it acceptable to launch pre-emptive first-strikes at allied Russian air-defence and anti-access systems located in Syria, which could interfere with and threaten US target acquisition and strike efforts?
Finally, are you reckless enough to gamble away all of our lives along with your own by possibly starting a global thermonuclear war with Russia? You declaim and condemn the Chinese and Russians for the death tolls they racked up in the 20th Century. Are you personally willing to top the list of mass killers in the 21st Century? Every villan is a hero in his or her own mind and does what he/she thinks is right in working their ruinous schemes. Are you willing to be Stalin117 or Mao117 and trigger the possible end of human civilisation and the deaths of billions?
There are limits to US military power, despite the might of the US Armed Forces, and both humility and caution rather than reckless brinksmanship and vain-glory are needed at times like this.
Cheers?
Evilroddy?
