WASHINGTON—The United States on Monday built a humanitarian and legal case for military action against Syria, rooted in the proposition that an "undeniable" chemical attack had shattered international codes of war. US rhetoric, led by an emotional indictment of Syria by Secretary of State John Kerry, is suddenly hawkish: a remarkable turn, since the White House has spent months trying to halt a slide into another Middle Eastern war. Officials cautioned that no final decisions on force nor a timeline for action had been made. There was, however, a growing sense in Washington that the clock was relentlessly ticking down toward US strikes against...
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