Can you only commit a 'moral obscenity'?

Or, can you simply watch it being committed and do nothing about it?  Which is worse?  Kerry seems to think doing nothing is worse.

Foreign Policy has a devastating article, including excerpts from CIA reports, that we allowed Saddam Hussein to use chemical warfare against Iran in the 1980s.  We said nothing, did nothing because we did not want Iran to win the Iran-Iraq War.  And, it appears that these nerve gas attacks were far more devastating than anything Syria has seen. 


Will Kerry read this article?