Chemical weapons appeal to potential aggressors because small quantities that could be stored in a single warehouse of moderate size-could hamstring an enemy in its efforts to mobilize, receive reinforcements, maintain air-sortie rates, and the like.
Moreover, he weakened its supporters both in the US capital and throughout the world by effectively accepting the lie that Israel itself is responsible for the radicalization of the Arab and Islamic worlds and that only by cutting it down to size will the West be able to moderate the behavior of jihadists from Teheran to Karachi to Baghdad to London.