see my other comment. that’s a fair point, but assad certainly does not prefer to have his bases destroyed, all else being equal.

You’re right that we don’t know exactly how consequential this particular strike will be, but we know the base was heavily used, so either the regime incurs the cost of shifting its operations elsewhere, or launches fewer attacks overall, thus “diminishes.”

Doesn’t mean he won’t keep it up, but he doesn’t have an…

What did we even do? How does this make Syrian civilians any safer? What does that statement even mean?

chemical weapons are forbidden by international law, so if this strike deters future use that’s a good thing.

You wouldn’t “have” a country ruled by a dictator if you chose Syria. You’d be dead or forced to leave. Don’t overthink this.

Are you saying Damascus would be more hospitable to you, specifically — presumably a Westerner — than anywhere in Libya? Because that’s not the question. The question is if you are the average…

At most, an estimated 30,000 Libyans have been killed since 2011, and around 1,000 per year at this point.

Whereas an estimated 300,000 to 450,000 Syrians have been killed in that same time frame, except unlike Libya, there’s no revolution anymore. They were all killed and forced to emigrate.

My mom has ALS. The second-best thing Deadspin ever did, behind telling Trump to go fuck himself, was once running a headline about the “profound shittiness of ALS.” Can’t be said any better. It’s an ugly, heartbreaking disease.

Wishing Dwight and his family courage.

Not sure what you read but Bulls reportedly wanted Crowder (starter), Bradley (starter), and either Smart or Brown (Smart is 5th in minutes played so kind of a starter, Brown has starts under his belt, and both are being groomed to start in the near future, thus “2-3"), plus this year’s Nets pick. That would have been…

If a team could put good players around Paul George and win a championship with him as the only superstar, the Pacers would’ve done that. The same goes for Jimmy Butler, and the Celtics know it. From the sound of it, not only were the Celtics not acquiring both guys, they weren’t acquiring either without giving up 2-3…

2007: Tom Brady, 50 TD, 8 INT, 117.2 Rating (4th all time), 18-1
2008: Matt Cassel, 21 TD, 11 INT, 89.4 (NR in top 250), 10-5

We have a control in this experiment. These were otherwise identical offenses. Cassel, despite being good (10th rated passer that year), won 5 or 6 fewer regular season games, which was the very…