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24 hours isn't enough time. Still turns these forums into twitter and defeats the purpose of having a forum format.

The west doesn't seem to have a problem with Erdogan or King Salman. At least Assad doesn't behead women for shopping without a male escourt or throw gay people of buildings.

Maybe the Syrian government dropped gas. Maybe they accidentally hit a stash of gas that an Islamist group was stockpiling. Or maybe some 'rebels' decided to release gas after the air attack to frame the Syrian government in order to try to get the Americans involved. I don't know which is true and which is false.

And how do we know the weapon was dropped from a plane?

Don't forget #HangAyazNizami. All in the name of fighting Islamophobia of course.

This change is sort of changing the behaviour of forum posts to more resemble twitter. People are more likely doing short and simple posts and less likely to post longer and more in depth posts since short simple posts are less likely to have mistakes that you won't be able to correct due to the banning of editing posts. If I wanted to do political discussions in a twitter format, I would use twitter. One of the advantages of a forum format is that it is supposed to allow for more in depth discussion, but getting rid of post editing eliminates one of the main advantages of a forum format. I don't really get how 1 person (cybercoma I think) going on 1 post deletion spree in the 10+ years this forum has been around justifies eliminating one of the most essential features of any forum, post editing. The fix is worse than the problem.

Would happen faster if we didn't have incompetent politicians like Wynne in Ontario doubling or tripling energy prices.

Don't ban things. Tax CO2 instead.

Lies. I got assaulted once and suffered a concussion. No military came to my aid then. Then you didn't do a very good job of it since we don't even have freedom of speech in Canada.

Sounds more like he wants to put more emphasis on economic immigration and less emphasis on other forms of immigration. Personally, I don't see any issue with that.

Yeah, sure. Doing peace time. Not really during a full blown civil war with the world superpower threatening to invade if chemical weapons are used.

Taiwan, sure. Japan? Really? Maybe the Senkakus, but why would China invade mainland Japan?

Then they should release that information to the public.

Cool, now if only you could deal with that pesky thing called evidence.

Cause that approach has been working so well the past 15 years...

And a 10 second violation justifies shooting down a pilot and a fighter plane? I thought Turkey and Russia were on the same side fighting ISIS. Or at least Turkey claims it is against ISIS. Cause we know Turkey is trustworthy. *sarcasm*

How do we know that the rebels didn't create this stockpile?

Yep. ISIS is losing ground. Assad is winning in Syria. So after years of fighting, Assad is suddenly going to use chemical weapons to give the USA and other countries a reason to intervene? Or maybe ISIS did it cause then they use the West to fight Assad so that they can fill the power vacuum. I agree, it doesn't make sense.

You should tell that to our NATO ally Turkey. Cause apparently they think that the 'rebels' do since they 'accidentally' shot a Russian jet.

Maybe it was the rebels, maybe it was Assad. I don't know. I'm not the one going 'Oh it's definately Assad, therefore we need Western countries to overthrow Assad so that we can create a power vacuum for the Islamists to take over the country'.

Yes... Assad's the madman. Not the crazy organ-eating fighters of ISIS who kill basically all non-Sunni muslims and will happily blow themselves up so they can get their 72 virgins. I don't buy it. But if you have evidence beyond just blindly believing Western propaganda then please present it.

Yes. Now prove the Syrian government did it. I'm not disputing that chemical weapons were used. I just don't know who they were used by, and I see no good evidence to conclude that Assad did it.

I don't care what the 'consensus' is. Show me the evidence. Prove Syria did it and not the 'rebels'.

Here's a question: What incentive would Assad or the Syrian army have to use chemical weapons? And why did they wait so many years before using them? Which group benefits the most from using chemical weapons? Assad and the Syrian army? Or the 'moderate rebels'?

USA has made lots of nonsense claims in the past such as Sadam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction. I think the intelligence community is littered with confirmation bias, making it unreliable.