For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile. Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpileābringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons.Ā Successive administrations have determined that theseā¦
Chemical weapons are pretty strategically bad for how the US engages in warfare. Chemical weapons are great for driving up civilian body count. The US doesnāt really do that as a strategic goal. On the battlefield they have a really high chance of killing and/or permanently disabling your own soldiers. Itās really more of a guerillaās/terroristās class of weapon because itās good for area denial and wreaking havoc on soft targets.
Uhhh, Agent Orange, White Phosphorous, Depleted Uranium. Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraqā¦ The US absolutely engages in driving civilian casualties in a way that can only be described as strategic. The number of civilians they kill even with conventional weapons is so high. Agent Orange poisoned generations of people, reducing birth rates and increasing mortality for an entire country. And then after they figured that out, they still decided to develop and deploy DU rounds that leave radioactive waste pulverized over vast stretches of land that can effectively never be cleaned up. Almost like itās a deliberate strategyā¦
Meanwhile, we never see terrorists use anything even close to what the US has done and continues to do.
What does the ādepletedā mean?
Depleted uranium https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
that makes sense, what with the US being a country of over 300 million people
not that the use of chemical weapons in terrorist attacks is particularly unheard of
opinion discarded
Utopian indeed