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December 4, 2012

Why Draw the Line at Chemical Weapons?

Max Boot, Contentions

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I am not objecting to the tough stance the administration is taking on chemical weapons use by the Syrian regime. I just wish its outrage–combined with the willingness to act–extended to all the other horrifying and reprehensible things that Bashar Assad is doing.

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