[depressed in 06]

...phosgene and not sarin.

I am not sure I see the difference being dead from phosgene or sarin.

[proud American in Canada]

Good point. Dead is dead.

[freeandfreezing]

I am not sure I see the difference being dead from phosgene or sarin.

I'm still trying to figure out the difference between being dead from high explosives, fire, and crushing forces, like the 300 or so civilians including children killed in a US bombing raid in Mosul and being dead from chemical weapons in Syria.

Why is everybody upset when somebody else kills a bunch of innocent children but nobody seems to care when a US bombing raid does the same thing?

The net effect of the anti-Assad policy has been hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of people dislocated, the destruction of much of Syria and Iraq, and the rise of ISIS. How is that a success by any measure?