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I think it was an intentional calculation to push the red line a bit and buy Assad time. Obama stated earlier that any move toward WMD would be crossing a red line...so they did it knowing the UN probably won't intervene with the fall of the regime likely soon.
The violence in Syria has been terrible but I'm not sure what else we could have done short of getting entangled in another mess. Perhaps the thousands of lives lost will make the people feel they've earned their freedoms rather than been granted them by the West.
-spence
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