Syria updates:

• The White House’s public assessment of last week’s chemical weapons attack.
• Deborah Avant — Action is not synonymous with intervention.
• Is there a moral argument for intervention?
• Tony Lang unpacks some of his comments on various threads hereat Duck below with his own post at Carnegie on the case for punitive action.
• Given all the discussion surrounding chemical weapons, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction ed, by Sohail Hashmi and Steven Lee  is the most extensive ethical IR discussion on the topic and should be required reading.
• A set of commentaries from CNAS
• Tim Hoyt adds some suggestions if, indeed, US airstrikes are imminent.
• The public wants the administration to go through Congress… something that didn’t go so well for Cameron last night.
• Mark Kersten’s take on why the ICC hasn’t been a factor in the discussions on Syria.

And,

• In light of all the news, it looks like Conflict Kitchen will soon be expanding its menu….