Robert Ariail for March 24, 2013

Who do you choose to support

Assad’s forces

The secular raiders, whom are essentially pillaging ruins or fighting with the Islamists for territory

The Islamic Jihadists, whom hopefully will tone down Islam once they take over

The Kurdish rebels whom are now preparing to create a separate country, but at the same time provide best protection to those within territory

The disjointed rebels whom have been integrated into various militias

keeping in mind that if you give aid to any group, the immediate result will be that the other groups will bare grudges

Giving military aid to one side or another works when there is somebody whom you actually want as a victor

you could always copy the previous approach and simply bomb the hell out of it, but considering that there isn’t much left to bomb. that will not work.

My personal preference would be to copy France during the Rwandan civil war essentially securing a passage out of the country for refugees, it proved to be low cost, low casualties, saved millions of lives and none of the factions got upset because none objected.

that said it was the USA that originally prevented it from being a UN backed strategy

Now THAT’S funny. Tell an outright proven lie, and then accuse your opposition (who believe the truth) as being in denial of facts. Ima is like Herman Cain: a performance art project designed to make conservatives look idiotic.

Some countries define tear gas a a chemical weapon. Here in the US it is used routinely allong with pepper spray.Before we start bombing,someone need to come up with definitions of chemical weapons.