‘Who benefits?’ is the question for Syrian gas attack

There was no military advantage to be gained from attacking a small town far from the front lines.

The UN Security Council has met several times to discuss the conflict in Syria, which escalated last week after a gas attack on a village in Syria and a U.S. military strike on an airbase operated by the Syrian regime.Photograph by Eskinder Debebe courtesy of the UN

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April 12, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—Donald Trump has spent a lot of time in the courts, so he must be familiar with the legal concept of “cui bono”—“who benefits?” When a crime is committed, the likeliest culprit is the person who benefited from the deed. But he certainly did not apply that principle when deci...

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