The Syrian Dilemma: Chemical Weapons and U.S. Action

Claiming that al-Nusra’s weapons are the ‘wrong hands’ implies that Assad’s are the ‘right hands.’ This is the same thing we said about Saddam Hussein until he deployed them against the Kurds in northern Iraq. Of course, we can’t really draw that comparison publicly since several of the components of Saddam’s chemical weapons were manufactured in New Jersey, and sent to Baghdad by the U.S.