Posted on 09/03/2013 9:20:24 PM PDT by TexGrill
WASHINGTON – You can’t safely bomb a chemical weapon storehouse into oblivion, experts say. That’s why they say the United States is probably targeting something other than Syria’s nerve agents.
Now, however, there is concern that bombing other sites could accidentally release dangerous chemical weapons that the U.S. military did not know were there because they’ve lost track of some of the suspected nerve agents.
Bombing stockpiles of chemical weapons — purposely or accidentally — will likely kill nearby civilians in an accidental nerve agent release, create a long-lasting environmental catastrophe or both, experts said. That’s because under ideal conditions — and conditions wouldn’t be ideal in Syria — explosives would leave at least 20 to 30 percent of the poison in lethal form.
“If you drop a conventional munition on a storage facility containing unknown chemical agents — and we don’t know exactly what is where in the Syrian arsenal — some of those agents will be neutralized and some will be spread,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonprofit that focuses on all types of weaponry. “You are not going to destroy all of them.”
“It’s a classic case of the cure being worse than the disease,” Kimball said. He said some of the suspected storage sites are in or near major Syrian cities such as Damascus, Homs and Hama. Those cities have a combined population of more than 2 million people.
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Imagine.
It’s all a diversion.
Putin is going to be pissed when some Russian technicians are killed.
Bet they’ll claim all those sites are at Tea Party rallies.
That assumes that air defense missile do not intercept the Tomahawks.
It NEVER made any sense.
When Bush escalated Iraq, the guys were in full MOP suits.
They were trying to secure WMDs.
Obama is like, “Let’s just pop them off willy nilly”
I am getting to think that the only world leader who really wants war is Baraq Insane Obama.
Good point.
Among other things, this will only deplete our resources.
He will be more pissed than Obama if Obama had lost troops.
Obama has no care for those in harms way.
Biden dropped a dime on Seal Team 6.
It sure looks that way.
Exactly!
Obama has purged out the good Admirals and Generals and now we have a bunch of chicken $hits who will use the troops as cannon fodder. Bastards, all.
It needs repeating.
This Clown is gutting us from the inside.
defunding us, over extending us, no clear mission.
You have eyes.
Yep, he’s doing everything he can to ruin us. We’re going to lose some cities, I’d bet.
We’ll defend what we can, and attack when we can.
That is all we can do.
That’s right.
Ripley had a solution ...
A fair assumption.
By the time 0bama is finished, Pelosi will have THOUSANDS of dead Syrian kids to worry about.
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