^I completely agree that chemical weapons are terrible. That’s not my issue.
I remember reading an article several years ago where a village in Africa was raided by child soldiers. They killed dozens of men, and children (mostly by hacking them to death , with rusty old machetes.)
They killed multiple babies by boiling them alive. They gangraped most of the females, and then cut off their nipples (so they could never feed any future children,) and mutilated,or castrated them. Two baby boys were also gangraped. One was like 6 months old, the other was 11 months or so.
And of course, they killed their livestock, and burned multiple dwellings down.
I’m paraphrasing, because it’s been awhile since I read the article.
My point? Is such an act not just as reprehensible? Where was America in that situation? Where was the world? That is just one horrific incident in Africa. Genocide, torture, rape, murder, have been going on in multiple countries there, for many years. It’s still going on. It was going on before the gas attack. It’s going on today,after we bombed an airfield in Syria.
Why is one horrific act, so much worse than another?