I think there's a much larger issue here, which is our whole Syria policy. And we've been sitting on our hands doing nothing while Assad slaughters his people, as said over and over again. More than 100,000 Syrians and now he's taking it a step further with the use of chemical weapons in a really horrific way.
Paul Wolfowitz criticizes the U.S. response to the Syrian conflict and the use of chemical weapons by Assad.
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