If you’d read for comprehension, you would find that I did not assert that the Douma attack was a terrorist attack.
You are making emotional leaps and ascribing them as facts.
I believe Trump and Mattis on this.
But, I say that will likely emerge as a problem in the future with false flags designed to use US power against regimes that are the target of terrorist and/or cartel organizations.
As I said, chlorine and helicopters are easy to come by.
I agree with what I think you mean. I too, for the most part, believe these men are well-intentioned men. But it is difficult for a reasonable mind to switch on and off from asserting most days that:
Much of the top military brass and most of the intel apparatus are still Obama sown tares who wish The Don, The General, me and you ill.
To occasionally saying:
I somehow illogically trust completely that those tares are providing our two honest men God's honest truth.
Many people, including high officials from other nations and ours have serious questions about the so-called 'chemical attacks'. Even Mattis has hedged on the evidence used to justify Trump's first annual spring flip/flop on his once-strident/candidate-promise get-the-hell-out Syria policy - and this now 2nd annual flip/flop is at least as dubious as the first. Now the Swiss have shown evidence that the narrative about highly pure Putin nerve assassinating Brits is wrong. Apparently it was ours, or at least western nerve that did the killing.
Throw in the absurd notion that usage of household chemicals is somehow all of a sudden considered a weapon of mass destruction... and our entire limp-wristed intervention seems even more contrived. Certainly it is true that chlorine has killed billions of lives, but most of them are bacteria and other microscopic terrorists. At the level of concern to the lives in my swimming pool, I'm Assad on steroids. And the sun is Donald Trump - casually, based on political clouds and such, bombing and somewhat degrading my capabilities in that regard, costing me a bit more money but not at all preventing my mission.
At the human level, if our long-time ally Chlorine is now a weapon of mass destruction, then based on anyone's casualty numbers Assad's, America's and any school shooter's conventional weapons should be considered weapons of hyper-massive destruction.
If stats alone made decisions (as they will in master Zuck's AI-based future) then we'd be bombing Syria to force them to ONLY use the highly less effective and less reliable chlorine as opposed to normalized weapons - which, of course, ALL rely on chemicals to deliver fire and lead through victims while also totally destroying the physical surroundings any survivors would need to, well, survive.
It's tough to believe any government or man nowadays. Especially with Logic and Occam screaming in one ear and everyone on TV screaming in the other. But whether or not American or any other arrogant and fallible earthly force can determine the ultimate fate of Syria, Damascus specifically, boils down to whether you trust the famous atheist prophet Kabuki more than God's prophet Isaiah.
Regardless whether you believe telegraphing enemies and bombing whatever they decide not to move in the meantime is somehow a glorious victory... and regardless whether our weapons were/are effective or commie weapons were even used... the ONLY thing a lowly Trump voter can self-verify at this point is that our guy promised, vehemently, one thing regarding Syria and has now doubled down on the opposite.
Pray for Trump and Mattis to have the wisdom to decipher who is telling the truth. But don't blindly trust any man with delivering it to them.