[lexington minuteman 1775]

Don’t telegraph where the dang red line is make them wonder if they have crossed it why any civilized leader would use sarin or chlorine gas deserves to get the holy hell bombed out of him IMHO!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Don’t telegraph where the dang red line is make them wonder if they have crossed it why any civilized leader would use sarin or chlorine gas deserves to get the holy hell bombed out of him IMHO!

That's the crux of it. The civilized world, if indeed it still exists, cannot afford to allow the use of terror weapons to become normalized and eventually tolerated.