Aurora atrocity more important than Syrian slaughter?

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57. There is no political solution, and more int'l intervention will simply spark wider regional war

Syria is viewed as a proxy in the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran to fill the vacuum of influence left by the debacle of US failures in Iraq and (to a lesser degree) Afghanistan. Israel has its own interest in regime change in Syria.

But, there are other regional players that are just as (if not more) important to the outcome. Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) for many years until the map of the Middle East was redrawn by the British Foreign Office at the end of World War One. The Turks have their own designs, but it is Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states that are funding the opposition and sending in the Jihadists who are carrying out most of the suicide bomb attacks. For them, it's a holy war for control over the Arab world.

Syria is being carved up. The civil war is just part of a larger struggle for power within the region, and neither the US and NATO, or Russia and China will be able to determine that outcome. We have simply made the situation worse by choosing up sides and not doing anything to pressure our "allies" in the region from further fueling the flames of civil and religious war.