Syrian gas-attack story doesn’t add up

On the verge of a battlefield victory, why would Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be so stupid as to employ the one weapon that almost guarantees the condemnation of the world?

The U.S. Navy released this photo of what it says is the guided-missile destroyer USS Ross firing a tomahawk missile on Syria last April. The U.S. fired another round of missiles at Syria on April 13. U.S. Navy photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert S. Price

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

April 18, 2018

OTTAWA—On Saturday, April 7, I awoke to catch a breaking story on CTV’s news channel. It was being reported that a chemical weapons attack had been perpetrated in a rebel-held town in Syria. A veteran news anchorman deadpanned a warning to viewers that the video images they were about to see we...

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