Whose Chemical Weapons?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

We are told by unnamed “activists” that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used chemical weapons recently to kill large numbers of Syrian civilians.

Responsibility for this crime has yet to be positively established but, at first blush, this charge seems implausible. For one thing, Assad’s regime is winning at the moment and talk of a Western intervention against him has diminished markedly. Why use chemical weapons and possibly change those realities?

For another, UN inspectors are in Damascus to investigate previous alleged chemical attacks, raising the risk the perpetrator will get caught.

On the other hand, anti-Assad jihadists seeking outside help to topple him may have both motive and means to “martyr” large numbers of innocents. If they actually did so, America needs no further reason to reject, not embrace, such Islamic supremacists.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.