The recent use of chemical weapons in Syria has not only gained world attention but has caused the discussion of possible military intervention. The United States government has been trying to point blame at whoever is responsible for the use of these weapons of mass destruction. Thus far, the blame has been assigned to either Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and the government or a “third party” rebel group (possibly al-Qaida). The United States is at a fork in the road as to who we should blame- the Syrian government is scapegoating the blame on the rebels when it quite possibly may have been the government themselves. The reason for the United States’ delay in military response is because we do not know who exactly to strike. The constant exchange of blame, the scapegoating, has been back and forth between the rebels and the Syrian government but thus far, a certain pinpoint of blame has not been determined. No matter who is to blame, the graphic images had surfaced on various places, specifically the media. The horrific images of children burned by the chemical weapons and the piles of bodies whom were killed by the weapons work as rhetoric because they are being used to persuade a certain form of action against the enemy- Barack Obama is trying to use a pathos appeal to persuade us to want to act against Syria. These violent images act as rhetoric to not only persuade the United States to act and support the United States government but they are also being used to try and assign blame on a certain party responsible for the use of these weapons of mass destruction.