> So you think that it is a complete impossibility that Assad ordered the gas-attack?
Only complete idiots believe that Assad ordered a gas attack when he had absolutely no reason to do it and so, so many reasons not to.
Assad mistakenly believed that Trump would not hold him accountable. And Assad wants and needs to break the will of the Syrian people. To do so, he wants to begin shifting to a war of annihilation. The purpose would be to convince the opposition that he, Assad, is immune to retribution and can strike them with anything and with impunity. Nearly a half million Syrians have died in the Civil War. Assad, like his father (see how his father dealt with Homs), will use genocide if he can escape the consequences. The fact that some will believe Assad would not have a reason to do this and that he didn’t do it even when we have forensic and Signal Intelligence proving he did means he has supporters on his side even though he’s a mass murderer who kills without discriminating combatants from non-combatants.
“Only complete idiots believe that Assad ordered a gas attack when he had absolutely no reason to do it and so, so many reasons not to.”
So Assad buys ISIS oil, Assad allowed Jihadists to attack American and Coalition forces in Iraq, Jihadists to have camps in Syria, harbored the Nazi Alois Brunner, harbored Saddam’s brother, was accused by numerous sources including Iraq’s president of allowing terrorist attacks against Iraq, funnels weapons from Iran to Hezbollah including missiles which are then fired into Israel hundreds of times, is in a state of war still with Israel.
And all you can come up with is an ad hom stating Assad would not do this? Glad we have experts here.