What the civil war in Syria and the Arab Spring have exposed is that the massive political and social transformation and real regime change underway is led by the people themselves, largely without military force and certainly with no role for the United States. U.S. military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction.
The United States is in no position to take leadership in response to any use of such weaponry by Syria
President Obama called their use a “game changer.”
The Syrian government and the opposition trade accusations about using chemical weapons and propagandizing the attacks.
Israel is clearly taking advantage of a severely weakened Syrian regime, correctly predicting that the Syrians are not in a position to retaliate.
Bahrain finds an off-label use for tear gas as chemical warfare.
States acquire WMD both for national security and to ensure that the ruling regime survives.
How oil interests obscured US Government focus on chemical weapons use by Saddam Hussein.