This is a preposterous defense of white phosphorous (an allotrope of the element that spontaneously ignites in air). Of course it's a chemical weapon; it just burns you to death before the toxicity can kick in. What a shameful series of tweets. https://twitter.com/luke_j_obrien/status/986024841370394624 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
The distinction is still pretty stupid; it's not like high explosives lack chemicals, or are particularly humane in how they tear human beings to pieces.
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I agree with you on this, too. You're just as dead from a cluster bomb as from sarin.
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I'm for much stricter regulation and believe these distinctions are valuable. I don't believe in reifying them to the extent you appear to in your defense of white phosphorous munitions,
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