Bilal Y. Saab, Chen Kane and Leonard Spector worry about Syria's chemical weapon stockpile, which is "one of the largest and most developed in the world." The regime "allegedly has large quantities of mustard gas and sarin":
[M]ilitary intervention, if mishandled or if it spirals out of control, might make the goal of securing and controlling these nasty weapons harder to achieve. The same goes for a strategy that seeks to arm the rebels or establish safe havens and humanitarian corridors across the country's borders. It is no wonder that President Obama and his top military brass are extremely hesitant to use kinetic force or send weapons into Syria. The country is a chemical powder keg ready to explode.
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