Targeting......Syria......And The 5 Rings

[omarali50]

Assuming that we really want to save the poor Syrian people from chemical weapon attacks, and assuming that the evil Assad regime actually launched the attacks (both open to question to some degree, but lets play along):
Leadership and nothing else. With drones and sigint and humint (I am just having fun with these words), daily hits on any leader (meaning anyone in the Assad family, known close associates, senior military, secret police chiefs, etc) who happens to be found.
Even then, it would be important to have a backchannel to them saying "if you do X, you are off the hit list".
Oh yes, daily list of "Obama's most-wanted", posters on the internet (just for show, there is little internet left in Syria now, but we could have wanted-poster design competitions in high schools), playing card decks with pictures of the bad guys for TV reporters. Running totals. Video games showing bad guys getting hit. Video of bombs entering chimneys. That sort of thing.
It would work too.
Seriously it would. But we are too nice to do that, not nice enough to stay away.