That’s the sort of thing reasoning that worries me. In addition, if this were crossing a red line now, why wasn’t it crossing a red line months ago when Syria first did this?
Testimony from victims now strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin Nerve Gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior UN diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte, a member of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof, that rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.
But she said her panel had not yet seen any evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons (CW), according to the BBC, she added that more investigation was needed.
This whole “reported incidence” reminds me of a psych opps plan reenacted by Code Pink playing the gay three stooges. Two guesses which side rolls like that....