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Poison gas is not a uniquely horrible weapon.
"Your grandfather did not need to use that horrible weapon," one of them said.
He cited a practice from that era known as "frighting," where people "carried around a really horrible weapon just to scare people, like a head axe or something.
Eradicating chemical weapons is good policy on two fronts - it eliminates both a horrible weapon of mass destruction and a major issue that can exert pressure on the exclusive notion of sovereignty.
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The US will not, alas, lead the way to a world without these horrible weapons.
Following a series of rows, and some fierce American bombing, the inspection regime collapsed.Nowadays nobody can control or monitor whatever horrible weapons Iraq may be developing.
While Iraq might arm a missile or a bomber with one of those horrible weapons, Wolfowitz says, the more likely delivery system is via the terrorist international.
Most troubling of all, Saddam Hussein has shown, has demonstrated his willingness to use such horrible weapons against other nations and against his own people.
No doubt, ridding Syria of chemical weapons would be a great blessing, not least because it would get these horrible weapons beyond the reach of Assad's Hezbollah allies and jihadi rebels.
The other was expiation through technology, a chance for the scientists who had created horrible weapons to redeem themselves by providing the world with a benefit from their invention.
Another irony, in fact, is that Gaddafi is reportedly using horrible weapons, including landmines and cluster bombs, that much of the world has renounced – but that the United States has refused to.
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