Posted: 4/15/2018
I observe a dangerous naivete or complacency by many contemporaries about the use of chemical weapons in our time. We further observe that the leaders of Russia, China, Iran, and still NATO member Turkey are obstructing or even aiding and abetting the dictator of Syria.
No civilized society can tolerate the use of chemical or biological or nuclear weapons against civilians. In Syria, we have now witnessed several large attacks on civilians in urban areas where chemical weapons were used. It was terrible enough that former war criminal and dictator Saddam Hussein of Iraq used poisonous gas on the Kurdish minority in Iraq.
It appears that many people have forgotten the great civil society achievement in chemical arms control treaties when chemical weapons (in particular poisonous gas) were banned or controlled in several international treaties as early as 1675. This diplomatic process culminated in the Hague Convention (1899), Geneva Protocol (1925), and more recently in the Chemical Weapons Convention (1993). All civil societies of the world are obliged to uphold these momentous achievements with force if necessary.
Thus, President Trump, Prime Minister May, and President Macron are justified to use surgical strikes against the war criminal, 2nd generation dictator in Syria to destroy facilities where research & development or production & storage of chemical weapons is occuring.
