There are dead people on both sides and many of them died by US army donated weapons. Many more will die when the cruise missiles start flying. Empty moralizing is empty, because none of this is, or has ever been, about the well being of the people.
And here is were you are wrong.
Stopping chemical weapons use is about the well-being of the Syrian people.
Or at least it was when that option was still on the table.
By now it's blindingly clear that no effective intervention will come from the west and endless bickering in UN over reports and security council meetings only prolong the inevitable. As sad it is - given that the best way to handle the conflict is to let Assad gas-away unchecked.
But we are far too hypocritical for that.
The issue is not chemical weapons use, it's that they were used by someone the USA don't like.
Remember it was the USA delivering chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein who then used them during the war with Iran and to wipe out a Kurdish village.
As always, USA taking moral high ground is risible.