If this was the work of the rebels/terrorists, I assume that their objective is to provoke the West into action to help them topple Assad. If the US do not act now, what are they capable of doing next to provoke a response?
My understanding is that we are not going to get involved militarily even if the UN sanctions it.
It is a very difficult call, but the message that we seem to have conveyed is that whilst we condemn chemical attacks, we do not want to get involved in sorting it out - or in other words, we are...