This is true. I guess my frustration is that aid organizations who try to work in opposition-controlled areas are targeted by the regime. To Assad, trying to reduce suffering by civilians is an act of opposition, since making civilians suffer is part of their strategy.

Protip- you can’t run sorties from an ‘airbase’ that is literally an intact runway and nothing else. Destroying a runway is a great way to render an airbase unusable, but hardly the only way.

The Syrian military claimed that the only planes destroyed were under repair anyway. GOSH, I WONDER WHY THAT WAS? Why was it that the operable planes were left unscathed? Could it have something to do with with that 4hr warning?

Yup. The best interface for driving is one you don’t have to look at.

What’s with these dramatic strawman scenarios?

Fuck it, then. I guess gas is on the table. Maybe anthrax next.

Shining a light on the fact that the DNC has drifted away from issues that actually matter to voters isn’t ‘fucking them up’, it’s trying to unfuck them.

Lol, acting like Bernie would have sold you out, but not the Queen of Triangulation. That’s fucking rich.

So, because we invaded Iraq on trumped up charges of merely possessing chemical weapons, we shouldn’t do anything when somebody actually uses them? Repeatedly? On neighborhoods?

I got off topic with the (admittedly neocolonialist and oversimplified) ‘how to solve this’ thing, so I’ll go back to my original point:

That bit about stripping away the complexities was in reference to how we should respond when somebody uses poison gas, not a long term strategy for stabilizing a country.

Meh, you call it ‘working with chaos’, I’d call it patting yourself on the back for alleviating the pain of a patient with difficult but operable cancer.

Lol, ‘throttle assad’s infrastructure’? What does that mean? He’s backed by Russia, and infrastructure exists to support civilian life.

Which faction should get the food, medicine, and generators?

I read your post. The reason for the simplification exercise is because your post is full of hand wringing and self-contradiction, and doesn’t really say what we should have done.

Remember, the way we showed we cared about the Jews in WW2 was by destroying the army that was killing them.

As long as we’re comfortable saying: “Yeah, he gassed neighborhoods, and we’re going to work with our allies to try and find something to eventually do about it. Hopefully in the next year or so, but you know how these things go”

The missiles were a warning shot. The strike was calculated to look as impressive as possible, while minimizing the risk of escalation (read: do as little as possible.)

Matte metallics look great. Glossy non-metallics do too.

Afaik umbrella-people are needed in motorcycle racing so that the rider can sit in the grid under the sun in full leathers.