We could debate this for hours or longer (as people in that Guardian article’s comments section were) and never convince each other. The fact that it is so disputed and the details are not fully known, and the fact that Obama literally said the use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a red line a year before the attack, and knowing the history of the US empire and its relentless greed and hunger for power and control, I am inclined to believe it was a false flag, just as you are inclined to believe the CIA propaganda/Western mainstream media line that every leader of a sovereign state that stands strong against US hegemony is a baby murdering dictator (even though all of the presidents of USrael are themselves baby murdering dictators). But I’m just a fringe tankie moron so don’t listen to me.
The fact that it is so disputed and the details are not fully known
Oh, you’re trying to end this in a draw because you know your position is unspeakably awful and indefensible to sane people, so backing down from “the rebels did it and it’s effectively impossible the regime did it because muh 2 km”, you’re now pivoting to it just being oh so murky and will we ever truly know?
No. Bashar al-Assad perpetrated it. Serious organizations don’t equivocate about this. Goddamn spineless that you’re pulling this “uwu it’s just too hard for anyone to say” bullshit. I could at least half-respect (as stupid and awful as it is) that you had an outspoken belief, but now it’s clear you’ll just say whatever muddies the waters the best because you value propagandizing over the truth. And here I thought the opposite might be true when you came out with unequivocal “al-Assad did nothing wrong” rhetoric (albeit with an objectively fucked version of “truth”). But no, you’re just really bad at it.
We could debate this for hours or longer (as people in that Guardian article’s comments section were) and never convince each other. The fact that it is so disputed and the details are not fully known, and the fact that Obama literally said the use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a red line a year before the attack, and knowing the history of the US empire and its relentless greed and hunger for power and control, I am inclined to believe it was a false flag, just as you are inclined to believe the CIA propaganda/Western mainstream media line that every leader of a sovereign state that stands strong against US hegemony is a baby murdering dictator (even though all of the presidents of USrael are themselves baby murdering dictators). But I’m just a fringe tankie moron so don’t listen to me.
Oh, you’re trying to end this in a draw because you know your position is unspeakably awful and indefensible to sane people, so backing down from “the rebels did it and it’s effectively impossible the regime did it because muh 2 km”, you’re now pivoting to it just being oh so murky and will we ever truly know?
No. Bashar al-Assad perpetrated it. Serious organizations don’t equivocate about this. Goddamn spineless that you’re pulling this “uwu it’s just too hard for anyone to say” bullshit. I could at least half-respect (as stupid and awful as it is) that you had an outspoken belief, but now it’s clear you’ll just say whatever muddies the waters the best because you value propagandizing over the truth. And here I thought the opposite might be true when you came out with unequivocal “al-Assad did nothing wrong” rhetoric (albeit with an objectively fucked version of “truth”). But no, you’re just really bad at it.