MSF confirms Syria 'chemical deaths'

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31. It's a good question.

As long as you use the right understanding. You have to look at a sufficient time span for an act to play out and also to look at not who actually benefits but who thinks they'd benefit.

All kinds of cases could arise where I do something but somebody else benefits--perhaps immediately, perhaps I benefit in the very short-term but in the long run somebody else benefits.

Or perhaps I do something to hurt myself intentionally, knowing that by helping the other person they'll be suspected and eventually be hurt, allowing me to benefit.

So in this perhaps Syria benefitted quickly. But in the end the rebels benefit more. Did Syria miscalculate?

Or perhaps the rebels did it, knowing they'd suffer in the short-term but benefit in the long term.

Perhaps it was a faction of the rebels at odds with both Assad and the group controlling the area the attack occurred in, so they benefit twice--smear Assad, kill enemy faction folk, and still get the US drawn in.

Attack happened.