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It's been one hundred years since British poet and infantryman Wilfrid Owen described a soldier suffocating on chlorine gas during World War I: “I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight. He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” In remarks to the Security Council April 4th, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley pointed out that World War I was the first time chemical weapons were used in modern conflict. The horror of the suffering such weapons caused drove the world, first, to ban their use, and then to ban their production and stockpiling too. “We dared to believe that we could banish the threat forever,” Ambassador Haley said. But Syria's Bashar al Assad is a man with other goals. In 2013 Assad used sarin gas against his own people on the outskirts of Damascus. The pictures of hundreds of dead men, women, and children shocked the wor
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