Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has apparently used chemical weapons — "against his own people," as we used to say to prove what a monster Saddam Hussein was. I never quite understood why "against his own people" was included. Would he have been any less of a monster if he'd used them against someone else's people?
Barack Obama has said that if the president of Syria did that, the U.S. would take action…so what's he going to do about it? Here's Fred Kaplan with the latest…