Over the past week or so, Americans have been bludgeoned with news about Syria and the prospects of war. According to multiple reports, U.S. intelligence, United Nations medical testing, and some pretty disturbing photographs; chemical weapons were used in Syria to kill people in the region.
In addition, many reports suggest that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is behind the attacks while others imply that it was the work of rebel forces. Syria has been enthralled in a two year civil war that has claimed the lives of over 100,000 people, and many believe that Assad used chemical weapons as a means to gain the upper hand in the country’s conflict.
Prior to the previous reports of chemical weapons usage in Syria, President Barack Obama drew a pretty bright line in the sand regarding Assad’s potential use of chemicals against his own people.
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation,” said Obama during an August 2012 presser.
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