I am anti-war except in legitimate self-defense.  That having been said, advantage in war is pretty much universal. The writer bases her entire premise on the notion that seeing dead chemical weapons victims induces more fear and terror than seeing the shredded mutilated bodies of those killed by high explosives.  That notion is very American.   Those who really see the carnage of bombings likely have a very different opinion. No compelling motivation for Assad to use CW has been identified.