Sarin is not a WMD simply sitting in a suitcase. We'll have to wati until tens of thousands of people are murdered to have a cuase for concern. We shouldn't be on offense, the MSM tells us, we should wait for another tragedy and simply base our military actions on the premise of reaction, not proaction.
But, you see, until W lied to the American people, tricking us into this war, the region was stable, and this stuff would never have happened..../sarcasm
LOL. Well said.
To set the record straight, nukes are WMDs. Chemicals and biologicals are (in military quantities) area denial weapons or (otherwise) terror weapons. They are murder weapons but, by definition they cannot be weapons of mass DESTRUCTION, as they only kill; they do not destroy. Only in the POLITICAL sense could they ever be considered WMDs.
I spend some years as Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare defense chief for a Marine helo squadron. I learned quite a bit about them. We referred to them all as "special munitions" but the term WMD was seldom if ever used except by politicians. Since we foreswore the use of chemical and biological weapons, we POLITICALLY equated them with nukes and said that sarin=anthrax=nukes... and said that if such were ever used against us we'd respond with a nuke and make some city or another immortal ashes floating around the skies forever.
In any event, Sarin, deadly as it is, could only be considered a WMD as a political gesture. Further, unless you have MASSIVE quantities, they are a brief nuisance at worst. Released in a mall, they could be avoided simply by leaving the area. And so forth, If anyone wants more info, freepmail me.