Abbotts opinion is to let them slug it out. Syria is running a one sided war. Now they use unconventional means of fighting that war.
These weapons were supposed to be surrendered, and now they find more.

Why would Assad risk world condemnation and hanging as happened to Saddam Hussein for alleged use of chemical weapons against his people.
Assad is not stupid.

Best look at all possibilities because Assad has not been tried and found guilty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5taO5vRDo&feature=youtu.be

The weapons were launched from an air base that has been identified and destroyed.
It,s hard to say that Assad would not know what was happening on his own territory.

If that air based was used as claimed then surely it would be part of the crime scene, and should not have been attacked as it was.

Evidence is needed.
There is only belief that air base was used, apparently no evidence to establish relevant fact.

It is stupid for a "developed" country to become involved in the internal problems of undeveloped countries, where the culture, mores and values of that country are nothing like ours. It's none of our damn business what dysfunctional states get up to. The West is not what it is by dint of good luck. We have what we have because the West if different from the rest. No-nothing Western leaders think that democracy and rule of law can be drafted on to backward countries still living in the Middle Ages. Iraq and Afghanistan have proved how wrong they were. All we have got from meddling in these hell holes is an influx of aliens who think that they can force their barbarism on us.

At the moment, Syrians are fighting a civil war, and that's the way it should remain. Far better for them to destroy themselves than allow them to drag us down with them.

Some of you people on OLO really need to start doing some serious reading instead of googling and taking notice of the media and self-interested politicians. Start thinking for yourselves.

JF Aus,

Good to see someone who can think turn up. Just because Assad is not a darling of the Left he must be guilty, according to the usual gang of lefty posters. Nobody not directly involved can be sure whether or not the chemical weapons were used by the Syrian government or the Islamist rebels.