If Syria Is Using Sarin, Obama Must Act
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April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Well, Bashar, now you’ve done it.We’ve seen that killing tens of thousands of your fellow Syrianswith conventional weapons is more or less acceptable to thecivilized world, as evidenced by the fact that the civilizedworld hasn’t stopped you from killing tens of thousands of yourfellow Syrians with conventional weapons.
But now, if U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is to bebelieved -- and Hagel isn’t a man looking for excuses to getentangled in the Middle East -- you have apparently usedchemical weapons (the nerve agent sarin, to be specific) oncivilians.