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To: bentway who wrote (230838)9/3/2013 9:55:24 AM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542970
 
The best pro-bombing argument I've heard is that these nerve agents, that can be produced in any insecticide plant, are the poor nation's "nuclear bomb". We don't want terrorists getting them and using them HERE, at some future time, so we want to punish anyone who produces and uses them.

It's a trial balloon

...run it up the flagpole and see who salutes

If the only agents with the ability to react fail to do so

..every 2 bit dictator on Earth can manufacture or buy this stuff

..not like there are substantial barriers to entry for the gassing club, unlike the nuclear club

It simply takes a willingness to do it and a world that doesn't give a shit

With this precedent, the next step is easier, and inevitable