CNN Anderson Cooper 360 September 5, 2013 00:08:00
>> the fact they said the world set the line in chemical weapons use, how do you respond? >> the treaty doesn't require military action. if you go back to the 1980s, saddam was regularly using poison gas against his own people and in the iran, iraq war. you go back a few years earlier, poison gas in yemen. nobody said was that a moral case for us. start with the fact 100,000 people have been killed in syria. a lot of children have been killed in syria. this is pretty horrifying stuff, but is it stuff which justifies the united states engaging in, frankly, a limited confused strike against a di...