(30.08.) Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from Assad‘s gas and surrounded by parents and grandparents who had suffered the same fate. The United States government now knows that at least 1,429 Syrians were killed in this attack, including at least 426 children. (..)
This matters also beyond the limits of Syria‘s borders. It is about whether Iran, which itself has been a victim of chemical weapons‘ attacks, will now feel emboldened in the absence of action to obtain nuclear weapons.