U.S. Sees No Conclusive Evidence of Chemical Arms Use by Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/middleeast/us-unsure-of-chemical-arms-use-by-syria.html?_r=0

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:32 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Sees No Conclusive Evidence of Chemical Arms Use by Syria
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   If al-Assad's forces have been killing Syrians with "riot control gas" rather than with "chemical weapons", these agents have been wrongly classed as "non-lethal".  

   President Obama is rightly reluctant to commit U.S. forces to someone else's agenda. He  constrained himself needlessly in drawing a "red line" at chemical weapons. The Syrian government has forfeited any claim to legitimacy in making war on its own people . How it kills each one mustn't obscure that.

Barry Haskell Levine