Could Chemical Weapons Get The U.S. Involved in Syria?

A U.S. Army chemical weapons crew takes samples from an M55 rocket. Photo: U.S. Army

You’ve heard this before. Worries about the proliferation of dangerous weapons and the erratic behavior of a dictator prompt the U.S. to consider putting boots on the ground. Iraq? Try one country over.

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad has tried for the past year to raze his opposition to the ground, Gadhafi style, a bloody process that’s accelerated in the past few weeks. But the U.S. isn’t interested in intervening to stop the slaughter. It’s worried about something Assad might have and Saddam Hussein ultimately didn’t: chemical weapons.

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