Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Phil Giraldi, a former intelligence official, believes that it was a conventional attack on a warehouse which stored some sort of chemical weapons.

I ask again - why would the Syrian Government need to resort to weapons of desperation? They are winning and will win unless the US stops them.

Trump is caving in to the McCains to take the pressure off himself from the howling media and establishment.

For every Phil Giraldi you'll be able to find a different opinion.

As for your question, who knows what local operational developments might have prompted such an attack by the regime?

The only thing we know is that we don't know very much. Fog of war, innit? What we might suspect is that there are chaps sitting in the Pentagon peering at great big screens who know much more than we do.