A well reasoned article as opposed to the World Nut Daily garbage.
Not only is the article well reasoned, its author is educated and at least as well informed as anybody outside of Syria.
Still, I think he discounted the probability that it was a false flag attack overmuch. In his ultimate sentence, he speculates that an overzealous Syrian Army artillery officer launched the VX gas canisters. Even so, it may have an officer with terrorist sympathies creating an even better false flag attack.
Paranoid? Yes. But as the article indicates, a gas attack does not serve Assad’s interests. And we’re talking about the Middle East.
Obama accuses Assad. Assad denies. When two pathological liars make mutually contradictory statements of this nature, who do you believe? It seems more rational to believe the version that comports with the interests of the actors. Obama needs a diversion from his scandals. Assad does not need America to make a kinetic military response for crossing a red line; he has enough trouble.