Professor Jennifer Welsh writes on the options facing the US after Israeli air strikes on Syria

Jennifer Welsh has written an article for The Globe and Mail (7 May) on the issue of international intervention in the Syrian crisis.

In it she writes, "It is surely right for the United States to do all it can to gather more definitive evidence – particularly given the incomplete and inaccurate information about weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify war against Iraq. [...]

However, through its CSI-like efforts to gather soil and human samples for testing, the Obama administration needs to be careful that it doesn’t establish an unrealistic standard for evidence – either for this case, or for future ones."