Syria Inaction is NOT AN OPTION

[DirkGently]

68. Wait. What are we doing about the children the other side is killing?

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Many of the refugees say they're fleeing because of the violence from the hard-line Islamist al Nusra Front, one of the main rebel groups opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

(SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) FARIS SULAIMAN FROM QAMISHLI, SAYING:

"There are bodies without heads at the morgue today. Why? Which international norms and which doctrine that can justify their death? They are cutting heads. Heads of children are being cut. A group of al Nusra front has permitted the killing, the slaughtering of the Kurdish people."

http://www.trust.org/item/20130819095403-vmywc/

You don't seriously think the Assad regime's atrocities, whether gas was used or not, are the only horrendous deaths occurring in Syria. The other side includes violent Islamic militants who are eating people's livers on camera and slaughtering Christians and Kurds.

He says Assad would be "mad" to launch the gas attack. He says Western politicians used to host him in Buckingham Palace.

He urges MPs to look at the video of a rebel commander eating the heart and liver of a dead soldier, and of executions of Christians by rebels - "their heads sawn - not chopped - sawn off with bread knives."

"Every minority is petrified at the victory of Syrian rebels," he says. He says Britain is intent on regime change.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10275441/Syria-conflict-and-Commons-vote-as-it-happened.html

NOTE: Religion is not the point. The point is that this is an ethnic conflict now. The horrors are evenly distributed.

So if the point is that "we" can't "allow" horrendous deaths, the question is why would we pretend firing a few missiles at Assad is going to fix it?

What "we" are really talking about is trying, once again, to win someone else's civil war for the "right" side.

And that's worked so well in the past, hasn't it?