And if, as the Russians say, it was an air strike on an Isis chemical weapons warehouse and the chemical weapons belonged to isis?
That may be true.....but again the idea is someone did indeed use sarin gas and the scenes of the people there trying to help adults and children is really shocking......Whatever discussions with nation leaders, because Trump just didn’t do this without some contacts, the airstrips etc. needed to be destroyed. How its all famed will be political for all concerned.
Not to direct this at you specifically, but there is a lot of misinformation and lack of information on these threads:
1) The gassed area was NOT held by ISIS, it was held by the al-Nusra Front. These are not nice people either, but almost certainly IF al-Nusra had Sarin, it would be from Syrian Army stockpiles.
2) Sarin degrades rather rapidly in storage, but the precursor chemicals do not degrade as quickly, therefor to use a stockpiled weapon, the two precursors are usually mixed in the weapon (such as by the spinning of a shell, rocket, or bomb in flight), or they are mixed shortly before the weapon is sent on its way.) If one blows up the warhead without said proper mixing, the amounts of lethal Sarin gas produced are typically minimal because the mixing is poor and many contaminants are introduced. (A very crude analogy would be setting two cups of “A” and “B” epoxy components and a grenade together, then detonating the grenade. Not much well cured epoxy will come out of that event.)
It is not impossible that rebels were mixing or had just mixed Sarin as the air attack occurred, but it is rather unlikely.
It is also not impossible that the rebels fired a Sarin warhead shell or rocket into the “strike” area as the air attack occurred, but this also seems unlikely, and would be very hard to plan for. More likely they would either be taking cover or operating what AA defenses they had.
3) Once deployed, Sarin on humans degrades and disperses fairly quickly, but not immediately. For example, clothing exposed to concentrated Sarin gas can release said gas at dangerous levels for roughly 30 minutes. In this particular instance (Khan Shaykhun attack), apparently some first responders DID die from or were affected by contact with initial victims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack
However, after an hour or so, victims generally are relatively “safe” to handle, assuming the Sarin gas in the area itself has dissipated.
Good article on Sarin (which all FReepers should read, if they are not already familiar with the details of Sarin), here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin