I'd like to open a personal account myvidster At issue now is not simply justice in Syria, but the threshold to the use of chemical weapons. If Assad concludes the worst he faces is stern tweets by U.S. officials like Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, then he might easily decide to make chemical weapons strikes the norm rather than the exception. So too might North Korea芒聙聶s Kim Jong Un or Turkey芒聙聶s Recep Tayyip Erdogan should peace talks with Turkey芒聙聶s Kurds breakdown. And if the world is silent when Assad allegedly drops chemicals on sleeping Syrians, what might stop him from repeating the same strategy on sleeping Israelis, Lebanese or Jordanians?