"In a world of vicious dictators, Syria’s Bashar Assad tops the list as a dictator who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own citizens to protect his own power and wealth. His regime’s use of chemical weapons against the men, women and children of his country, in violation of all international conventions and moral standards, makes him a war criminal."
Much like Saddam Husein before him Assad, (cut of the same cloth, both real pieces of work and products of the Cold War,) tops the long standing Neo Con list of targets for regime change. Decades of clandestine dirty trick, economic sanctions culminating in a US sponsored transfer of many billions in weapons via US ally Saudi Arabia which armed the extremist rebels of choice in a new holy war and turned the usual middle-east bloody repression of this secular dictator into a horrific bloodbath of historic proportions that they have the gall to call a civil war.
Assad has indeed committed serious crimes against his opposition just as Saddam Hussein before him but the real war crime, the real cause of 400,000 dead, the full responsibility for this catastrophe in the middle east belongs squarely on the shoulders of the US.
If you recall Saddam Hussein used US supplied Sarine gas on his Kurdish opposition with a wink and a nod by the US. This was ironically used in the run up to the first Gulf war as and example of how terrible this dictator was. One year later 100,000 people were dead, many children. This is on us. Now it's 400,000. Forgetting history is deadly. I do not have a road map here but I do know we can not bomb our way to peace.
"A clear conscience is a clear sign of a bad memory" Mark Twain
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