why is it so important to Bill Clinton that the U.S. intervene in Syria?

[Catherina]

58. No kidding! " It started in April and May...""King Abdullah showed a map with "Sunnistan""

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It started in April and May, when European allies Britain and France presented skeptical U.S. officials with evidence that Mr. Assad had used chemical weapons against his people. It culminated in an emergency phone call a week ago in which a top rebel commander warned the administration that a "menacing" buildup of forces around Aleppo threatened to snuff out the rebel cause.

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In March, Britain began testing physiological samples from Syria for chemical weapons, and then started sharing the results with the U.S. and France. At the time, some U.S. officials were dismissive, saying the samples may have been tainted by rebels who want to draw the West into the conflict on their side.

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Starting in April, a procession of Arab leaders made their case on Syria directly to Mr. Obama and his top advisers. Some of the leaders, including Jordan's King Abdullah, traveled to Washington. King Abdullah said the U.S. should be "captain of the team"—to corral other Arab states which have been working at cross purposes by providing arms to different rebel groups.

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To try to make real the dangers for Mr. Obama, King Abdullah showed the White House, and later congressional officials, a map of a hypothetical future Syria, splintered along ethnic lines: an Alawite coastal strip; a Sunni-dominated center that officials said the king called "Sunnistan"; a Druze-controlled area near the border with Israel; a Kurdish zone in the northeast corner; and a large swath of Syrian desert abutting Anbar province in Iraq dominated by Islamists.

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Secretary of State John Kerry was among the most vocal supporters of arming the rebels, officials said.

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