Via The New York Times:

Scores of men, women and children were killed outside Damascus on Wednesday in an attack marked by the telltale signs of chemical weapons: row after row of corpses without visible injury; hospitals flooded with victims, gasping for breath, trembling and staring ahead languidly; images of a gray cloud bursting over a neighborhood.

Nearly a year ago, President Obama declared the use of chemical weapons in Syria to be a “red line.” Then his own White House determined in June that chemical weapons had been used, but responded only by increasing its military support for the Syrian rebels. Now this.

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...