Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
At the least, if it is the case that Assad has intermittently employed chemical weapons for terror over the past 3 years, then the timing to employ chemical weapons recently would have been perfectly reasonable,, even auspicious.
Why? If you are referring to the US letting off pressure recently, I don't think Assad ever looked past the possibility that they can reverse it at any time. I am not seeing any sane reason in this thread about why this pencilneck would do something so counterproductive.

Though even with the rogue commander theory, employing chemical weapons at this level must have required some sort of set military procedure and orders.

Who knows.