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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, August 29th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. and editors about politics. It's Thursday, August 29th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

On Wednesday, President Obama made the case for attacking Syria.

We want the Assad regime to understand that by using chemical weapons on a large scale

against your own people, against women, against infants, against children, that you are not

only breaking international norms and standards of decency, but you're also creating a

situation where U.S. national interests are affected, and that needs to stop.

That's from an interview on PBS's News Hour.

George Packer and Dexter Filkins are joining me to discuss Obama's options in Syria.

Dexter, a year ago, the president warned Assad that the United States would consider the use of chemical weapons a red line in Syria's civil war.

And last week's poison gas attack appears to have forced his hand,

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