Mr.
Assad doesn't have the capacity to
strike us in a significant way. Some
of his allies like Iran and Hezbollah
do have the capacity to engage in
asymmetrical strikes against us. Our
intelligence, I think, is very clear that
they would not try to escalate a war
with us over limited strikes to deal
with this chemical weapon issue.
Keep in mind, Iran was subjected to
chemical weapons use by Saddam
Hussein. So the Iranian population
thinks chemical weapons are terrible
and probably consider what Assad
did to be a grave mistake......

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