re: #13 calochortus

I am so, so glad this isn’t my decision to make. Yes, I’m weaseling out.
On the one hand, I want to stop Assad. On the other hand, there are sure to be unintended consequences and no guarantee of success. I just don’t know.

There are unintended consequences to inaction as well.

Inaction is an action - and Assad knows this better than anyone. Every day the UN, West, and the US specifically don’t take action is another day that Assad knows that his strategy to wield WMD against the opposition in small but steadily growing doses is one that will keep him in power for the foreseeable future.