万花筒 2013-05-01&05-03 白宫称叙政府动用沙林毒气

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the U.S. saying it now has evidence that Syria has used chemical weapons on its own people.

 

President Obama has said many times that would be a red line for the U.S. to take action.

 

But is the evidence strong enough? A question for ABC's Martha Raddatz, joining us, now, in Washington with more. Good morning to you, Martha. 

 

Martha: Good morning, Josh.

 

The language in this assessment² is the strongest we have seen. And very specific. The white house saying, that the intelligence community believes that the Syrian regime has used the nerve agent serin on a small scale.

 

That's an agent that paralyzes and suffocates³ its victims, but there are many caveats⁴ in the statement.They make clear that there's a varying degree of confidence that sarin was used and basically want more tests to prove it.

 

So this seems a red line, Josh,

 

that still has shades of gray. 

 

Josh: But a red line never the last mark.

 

This is something again the president had been very clear about in the past.

 

Martha: President Obama did say one point there will be enormous consequences if president decided⁵ to use chemical weapons,

 

but we are talking about the possibility of the military action in Syria or a no-fly zone so the administration is not rushing into this.

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