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How Far Will Assad Go?

Mike Giglio on how the U.S. administration is allowing the Syrian dictator to keep using chemical weapons against the rebels.

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On Thursday, after the United States joined several allies in announcing that the Syrian government had likely used chemical weapons against the country’s rebels—on a “small scale,” as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel put it—many commentators wondered if the Obama administration’s so-called red line on Syria had

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