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In reply to the discussion: Straight up or down: Do you support U.S. strikes against Assad's forces in Syria? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Know scientifically to be the dangers of air strikes on sites where such chemicals are stored/produced.
It seems to me that bombing such facilities may actually cause death and/or extreme harm to all life within the chemical fallout radius as well as areas where wind dispersal might take any agents not completely destroyed by explosives.
Might this be a case similar to blowing up a radioactive materials stockpile that could turn an attempt at destroying the threat into a much larger airborne threat unintentionally created by us?
Could our "humanitarian" bombs turn into "dirty bombs" killing far more than our villains might using the same materials.
I wonder if there even is such a thing as using bombs to protect people from chemical weapons. I wonder if the act of trying will instead kill more people with the chemicals than our enemies ever would.
Expert scientific knowledge should at least be considered (my own preference would be to give science the final word) before blowing all these things up.