U.S. says Syria has used chemical weapons

It is very strange that Assad would risk greater Western intervention by approving a few small scale chemical weapons attacks. It would be easier to understand, as an act of desperation, a decision to resort to such weapons openly in a major way. I know it sounds like the intelligence community is being very careful about this but I still have to wonder if somehow, perhaps with aid of a defector, the rebels have managed to stage attacks for which the Assad government will get the blame.

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