Why would Syria risk the use of chemical weapons?

Universal condemnation? Who cares. He’s got enough backing and the US isn’t going to do anything so why not shorten the military action and end any resistance? Listen, he’s been doing this since 2013 and no one’s stopped him yet.

“That’s right,” Jennifer Cafarella, a senior intelligence planner at the Institute for the Study of War, told Business Insider. “Assad attacked civilian targets in Douma after Jaysh al Islam refused to accept a surrender deal.”

“Assad’s goal was to break the will of the local population and force Jaysh al Islam to surrender. He succeeded,” Cafarella wrote in an emailed statement, adding that it was also to show “impunity after President Trump signaled his desire to withdraw from Syria.”

He has nothing to lose, and retributions against him have been nothing short of infantile.
He cares nothing for the people of his country, power is the only thing that matters to him and staying in power.
I just wish his own army would see this and turn against him.

They keep getting away with it This is the eighth since Trump took office

Here’s an interesting article on who’s wanting the US involved:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/world/syria-us-strike-world-reaction/index.html

And yes, it’s been a while:
The Syrian civil war has been an utter tragedy. If anything, the Obama administration should have done much more to address the refugee crisis that is wreaking havoc across the Middle East and Europe. The temptation to intervene in situations like the Syrian civil war is humane and understandable. But, in these thorny cases, leaders with circumspection are vital to preventing further conflagration. Fortunately, President Obama was able to do just that and keep the U.S. out of Syria.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/320199-how-will-history-judge-obamas-actions-in-syria

@LostInParadise The Syrian American Medical Society and the White Helmets civil-defense group have documented 200 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, many involving chlorine.

2009–2017 who was in office? Yes, now Trump bears responsibility and everyone’s watching but let’s not act as if Obama solved everything, clearly he didn’t.

Assad doesn’t see the gas attack as a risk. It is just a punch in the gut to those that oppose him. it is “win- win” for him.

The West said years ago that Assad “had to go” but he’s still there and stronger than ever. He doesn’t care what we think.

It’s a suicide ploy. If you and all of your countrymen are sure to die, by your hand or someone else’s, get everyone else on the block involved so that all can die along with you.

Makes ya wonder what the 11,000+ US airstikes in Syria over the past few years have done, huh?

@SquirrelEStuff Those 11,000 airstrikes helped Assad because they targeted his enemies. Go figure.

Clearly no fear of retribution.

Why is Trump pussyfooting about responding. His latest tweet said, maybe I will and maybe I won’t. This is not something to be made light of. Could he be a bigger jackass? If he does not do something soon, It will be pointless, especially since it appears that the Syrian regime is close to winning. The town of Duma, where the chemical attack was launched, was among the few remaining holdouts, and it was just taken over.

^Yeah. Now it’s time for systematic killing of the remaining resisting population.
I predict more gas attacks.