Of course people opposed to military strikes are horrified by the use of chemical weapons

[Hubert Flottz]

25. I'll tell you what I saw in the Army...

I saw a guy volunteer to have a drop on nerve agent placed on his bare arm for a demonstration at Fort Ord California. In about a minute the guy had white foam coming out of his mouth and gushing out the bottom of an M-17 gas mask he was wearing. He began to shake and twitch and the man standing by with the atropine Autopen injectors, began injecting the victim in the leg. In a couple of minutes after the officer had injected the demonstrator with a second injection, he started showing signs of recovery. In five minute's time the man was able to maintain his equilibrium enough to get up out of the chair he'd been seated in since he began the demonstration and stand up on his own. In about fifteen minutes the guy was pretty well back to normal. The private only had the chemical on his arm for about one minute before they washed it off of him. Back then you had CS gas in your sleep and sometimes for three meals a day, because the Drill Instructors thought it was loads of fun.

The key to survival is to be injected very quickly after being contaminated, but the problem is, if the volunteer who had a dose of nerve agent and been by himself, I doubt if he would have been able to inject himself, much more than a minute after he was exposed, because he was so quickly incapacitated. By the time one would be aware of the fact that they'd been exposed to these chemicals, he would probably die a horrible death if he was by himself, even if he had the antidote in his pocket.