re: #279 Targetpractice

Not surprising, though disappointing. It’s rather distressing that so many would feel it preferable that we sit by and watch Assad gas his people into submission than take action on the fear that it might expand into an occupation. There is no “good” option, that’s true, but inaction is amongst the worst of those on the table.

As opposed to mass artillery bombardment of his people, mass napalming of his people and mass machine gunning of his people? We are meddling in a region where we are famously incapable of bringing about anything remotely resembling a desirable outcome…and where our involvement has actually made matters worse in the recent past.

I see little chance for us to save anyone who we wish to save, and many opportunities to enable Islamist despots who will use our ‘help’ to gleefully go about ethnic and religious cleansing, mass murder of the people we wanted to help in the first place and the extermination of the Orthodox Christian community.