Syrian officials deny use of chemical weapons

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16. Because, as a wise poster above said, "... there is a military advantage in it."

Are you seriously proposing that Assad should have exploded a nuclear weapon (assuming he had one) in say Homs or Aleppo in order to shorten the civil war there? Since he does not have nuclear weapons, he should use whatever he has to achieve the same result? And then you ask "why in the world would he use it on civilains". Didn't we drop the bombs on civilians in Japan? I thought that's what you were proposing to be a good strategy for Assad?

"Ever ask yourself why all these countries still have their nuclear weapons if they never plan on using it." - As far as I know, no country has used nuclear weapons against its own people in order for the ruling party to stay in power.

"...dictators do not have a sovereign right to defend their repressive rule with chemical or nuclear weapons. Sovereignty lies with the people of Syria not with the royal family."

The stuff you said about dictators is something you just made up.

Oh, I definitely just made that up. Do you believe that dictators and royal families have some kind of divine right (or sovereign right) to govern? Do they have the right to use whatever power at their disposal to retain that right? Or do the people have a right to choose who governs them?