There are plenty of reasons to loathe Trumpy without making crap up.
If he backs up his words, and takes some positive decisive action to rid the world of a fiend who uses chemical weapons on innocent people, I will applaud him for it.
So said the people who thought W. was justified for going into Iraq. And how long did we have people over there? Oh wait, we still do.
I didn’t mean invade Syria.
But that is what it means. Nature abhors a vacuum.
So we just let Assad do what he likes?
As sad as it is to say, yeah, pretty much. However bad Assad is, he’s a lot better than Isis. The best we can hope for is when/if Assad and Russia have defeated Isis, he can be pressured into stepping down. Stalin was a monster too but when faced with something even worse, the west has to go with the “Enemy of my enemy, is my friend” rational. It’s all very depressing.
Actually Assad’s hold on power pretty much exists entirely at the pleasure of Putin. So there’s an alternate path, where you replace Assad with another Putin-friendly monster who simply hasn’t had the time or opportunity to get as much blood on his hands. The west can walk away calling it a win, because Assad is gone, Putin can walk away calling it a win, because it’s still their puppet. It could be another ten years before the new leader proves as bad or worse than Assad.
Yes, that’s what I was referring to when I said “he can be pressured into stepping down”. I think we agree… agree that it’s a horrible situation.