The British aren't coming

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WASHINGTON — The goal of the cruise missile strikes the

United States is planning to carry out in Syria is to restore

the smudged “red line” that President Obama drew a year 

ago against the use of poison gas.

Even an attack that the president has described as no more than an effort to restore the “red line” could diminish the ability of Syrian forces to attack population centers with conventional munitions, depending on how the attack is devised.

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