# Why are 'chemical' weapons the red line in Syria?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-chemical-weapons-the-red-line-in-syria/783918>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 6, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-chemical-weapons-the-red-line-in-syria/783918 "2017-04-06T20:09:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-chemical-weapons-the-red-line-in-syria/783918/21 "2017-04-09T07:29:51Z")

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Then why doesn’t the USA. That’s why he’s winning.

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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-chemical-weapons-the-red-line-in-syria/783918/22 "2017-04-09T07:33:55Z")

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> [@igor\_frankensteen](#):
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> Well, lets think about this a little more. Did _the world_ actually get up in arms? The only things I remember happening, was that first Obama, and now Trump, got upset. Obama threatened action, but didn’t act (and Trump at the time supported no action), and now Trump sent a strike of missiles.

Ultimately it’ a unilateral attack on a sovereign country in the midst of a civil war, against at least three different self-invested enemies, each of whom has its own geo-political backers.

The USA was forced to act, to act alone, without a strategy. It was a giant wet fart engineered by Putin.

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