Did he do it? I have no idea. He should not be in charge of anything, though. I do know that. If he didn't do the nerve gas thing, he would liked to have done it, if it served a purpose for him.

Screw Assad!

But it's really worrying that our media doesn't questing it a bit, nor do most congresspersons. We're dealing with a megalomaniac who has no qualms about lying to you or to anyone, and yet we unquestioningly follow him.

It's disturbing and sickening.

In fact, their ability to do investigative reporting is really lower now than ever before.

They simply report what they learn from other sources these days, and have little interest in the expensive process of actually digging into what they report. That's the reality.

they probably don't feel the need to do so, regardless of how you feel about it. The problem is, in part, that the media are made up of profit-making entities. They are less driven by your needs and mine than they are by their advertisers, who are the ones who pay the high costs of the news business.

Sadly, I see no remedy for that.

the Latin phrase cui bono? (who benefits?) so, of course, they never ask it.

Trump flagrantly violated international law and committed an act of naked military aggression. But you won't see anyone in the media utter those words.

Leslie Moonves stated that Trump might be terrible for America but he was great for ratings. And ratings translate into profits.

They generally uncritically accept every right wing assertion on anything as a fact, or at least as a reasonable alternative.

They're parrots, not detectives. They should be the latter.

When will people learn?

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They believed the govt story on the Gulf of Tonkin, they believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD, they believed that Sadat Hussein snatched incubators from Kuwaiti infants etc. They get swept up in patriotism during foreign conflicts. It must be human nature because it always happens , not just in our country.

What evidence would you want to see?

....and then used it to gas themselves by arial bomb with their non-existent airforce.

a fleet of bombers with supporting fighter aircraft? There is probably a Syrian MacGuyver making the stuff out of paperclips or a Syrian Gilligan's Professor making bombers out of coconuts, This is much more plausible than Assad, who has done this before, doing it again.