Russia Today Airs Fake Footage of Rebels Using Sarin Gas in Syria

[JDPriestly]

36. But Russia virtually admitted it was Assad's government that used the chemical weapons when

he and Obama arranged for a peaceful solution.


I don't think that at this point we should intervene militarily. We cannot in good conscience support any one of the rebel groups. Even though one or more of them might be ideologically acceptable, the danger is that group might lose and then we would have a more serious problem than we have now. I just think that Syria is one situation in which at this time we should stay out of the fighting and watch. The risk of taking a side that is doomed to fail, getting involved in a long, drawn-out war that does not improve the lot of the Syrian people is too great.

We should try to nudge the Russians into negotiating Assad's exit from Syria. His dictatorship is eliciting the violence and making it worse. But we have to do that through as peaceful a means as possible.