The overselling of bombing Syria demonstrates how stupid the admin thinks

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33. Sometimes there is no viable "solution". That's just a fact of life

One thing I'd certainly like to see happen is a much more robust plan for helping the refugees. btw, not all the refugees support Assad.

I support more pressure on Assad from the U.N.

Approximately a hundred thousand people died before the chemical attack. And not just by the Assad regime. It's a nasty civil war that's turned sharply sectarian.

The reason that a solution is so elusive is that the realistic options are all horrible: The rebels win and get rid of Assad? What happens after that? The civil war continues as the various factions fight one another for power, a potential genocide of the Alawite people and ethnic cleansing of Christians?

U.S. intervention, particularly unilateral intervention- and we stand functionally alone on this with the possible exceptions of France and Turkey- is fraught with peril. It could make the whole bloody mess even bloodier, not to mention further fraying U.S. relations and serious blowback.