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(04-17-2018, 02:40 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: So are the reports true that we destroyed Assad's chemical weapons facilities?  How did we know about them when the UN inspectors did not?  And wouldn't bombing them release clouds of poison gas?

I touched on these questions previously. Chemical weapons deployment is deliberate. Accidental or by bombing is ineffective. Chems hate heat and require multiple parts mixed (binaries).

The main facilty in town was for research and housed documentation troves as well. The other two were smaller storage facilites for precursor. None were a real threat to a populace from bombing. Honestly, these were limited attacks/show of force. If anything our military learned a ton from this operation, moreso than the potential lesson learned by Assad. If I was Russia or Iran, I’d feel pretty uneasy about multiple countries being able to conduct these types of ops with relative impunity. Perhaps may have even caught the attention of Nk.

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