The planned military intervention does not want to "solve" the problem. It wants to send a message beyond Syria.
It's about holding people accountable for genocide.
I also have to ask: Why exactly is it that the FSA is "completely overwhelmed"? At the start that was clearly not the case. Hm, now is there some authority in Syria that wanted to frame the conflict from the start as a democratically elected leader against foreign jihadists? Could it be that said authority targeted primarily the non-jihadists over the last two years?
The planned military intervention does not want to "solve" the problem. It wants to send a message beyond Syria.
It's about holding people accountable for genocide.
I have raised my concerns about this position here. [1]
I also have to ask: Why exactly is it that the FSA is "completely overwhelmed"? At the start that was clearly not the case. Hm, now is there some authority in Syria that wanted to frame the conflict from the start as a democratically elected leader against foreign jihadists? Could it be that said authority targeted primarily the non-jihadists over the last two years?
I think that the most plausible explanation is that the jihadi movement had more external support. War is expensive: all sides of the conflict are in need of arms, food, medical and other supplies, training and expertize. And the FSA has got least.
I think that Assad is generally not a good guy. And that FSA has had legitimacy at the start of the war. Probably, Assad would've liked to frame the conflict as "Assad" vs "Jihadists/Foreign-sponsored freedom fighters" from the very beginning. But the conflict has indeed became a proxy war with many sides, and the FSA has got caught in the middle of them. [2] [3]
I guess we won't come to an agreement. I think chemical weapons are immoral and their use must be punished, even if there is a one in a thousand chance we are hitting the wrong party. The party that, incidentally, is single handedly responsible for cleaning up and avoiding any solid investigation.
You think that because the US (and every other country) has acted immorally in the past, no such punishment must be carried out, and Assad should be given a free hand in dealing with his civilian population...
It's about holding people accountable for genocide.
I also have to ask: Why exactly is it that the FSA is "completely overwhelmed"? At the start that was clearly not the case. Hm, now is there some authority in Syria that wanted to frame the conflict from the start as a democratically elected leader against foreign jihadists? Could it be that said authority targeted primarily the non-jihadists over the last two years?