Chemical confusion: has Syria's civil war crossed the ‘red line’?

Ten years ago this month, the US invaded Iraq under the pretense that Saddam Hussein had obtained weapons of mass destruction. Today, George W. Bush is out of office and Hussein is dead, but an eerily similar scenario is unfolding in neighboring Syria, where a blood-soaked civil conflict may have just entered an even darker state of dystopia. Last week, Syria's SANA state news agency reported on an apparent chemical attack in the northwestern province of Aleppo. According to SANA, a rocket "containing chemical materials" was launched in the Khan al-Assal region on March 19th, killing 25 people and injuring dozens more. On Monday, opposition leaders accused Assad's forces of launching a second chemical attack on a town outside Damascus,... Continue reading…