I’m not much of a fan of getting involved in Syria. That said, I’ve noticed, in this thread and others, a conflation of chemical munitions, (nerve agents) and white phosphorus incendiary munitions, (WP). The message seems to be that since the US still condones and uses WP, that it has no moral standing to condemn chemical attacks on urban targets.
WP is some bad, bad stuff. It’s horrifying to see what it does to people. It’s a relatively retail bit of nastiness, though. Chemical weapons are as much worse than that as nukes are than cluster bombs. Seriously, people need to do some homework before spouting the idiotic BS that I keep seeing here. If the US somehow used every WP munition in its arsenal on a city, the human damage wouldn’t equal even a small, crappy chemical attack.
Hate the US all you want to, I won’t tell you you’re entirely wrong, but consider for just a second that we’ve destroyed pretty much our entire chemical arsenal, because it’s just that bad. Now consider that Assad is using that stuff on his own cities. So where’s the high ground? Stand by and watch? Try to stop the fight, or at least slow down the worst of it? I don’t know. It’s not as simple and easy a problem as some would have us think.
