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.
