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May 7, 2018

Discouraging the Use of Chemical Weapons Should Be an End in Itself

Achieving what’s possible.

Since regular munitions can kill just as effectively as chemical weapons, it is unlikely that deterring Bashar al-Assad from deploying the latter—as the airstrikes last month and the previous year were intended to do—will save many lives. For precisely this reason, argues Max Singer, preventing their use is a worthy and achievable goal:

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