The president himself mandated a military response to the crimes of Bashar al-Assad in the event that they included the use of chemical weapons, and the United States only prepared to “engage militarily” for that uncommon atrocity after a dozen or so “small-scale” chemical attacks (all registered by U.S. signals intelligence) had preceded the unignornable one in Ghouta on August 30, 2013. Moreover, a Nobel laureate accustomed to being congratulated for his eloquence can be expected to do better than “norms” in describing the asphyxiation of 1,500 people by nerve agents in a capital city.
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