Okay...so let's say that they have a small (compared to the U.S.) stockpile of chemical weapons.
They've had them for years (probably purchased from Russia or Iran who are both allies of Syria and both are part of the 13 countries in the world who PRODUCE chem weapons...including the U.S.).
With Assad as the leader of the country they have never used or threatened to use chemical weapons on any other country...ever.
So now we are supposed to be worried that the chemical weapons will "fall into the wrong hands" while Pres. Obama has been encouraging the "rebels" to fight since he announced in 2011 that it was "Time for Assad to go"?
Doesn't that sound fucked up to you?
We gave the rebels encouragement to keep fighting. We publicly call for their Pres. to step down. We give them support under the table. And now we are talking about firing cruise missiles to help them further...all to overthrow a guy who has had chem weapons for decades & never attacked any of the countries you mentioned or evened threatened to.
So we take out the responsible guy and then we have to worry about the chemical weapons falling into the "wrong hands".
In other words...we help exacerbate a problem and then try to "solve" it.
Where if we had kept our nose out of it in the first place...The Syrian govt. would have quelled the rebellion in a few weeks and the bloodshed would have been ended 2 years ago.
Now we have all this death, refugee camps, Al Qaede all over Syria.
And our "solution" is to bomb them.
If only we would stay the fuck out of other nation's business...