Syria: the case for action

[CrowBat]

They cannot distinguish between humanitarian intervention and long term nation building.

VERY true.

Ditto in regards of 'no matter what is happening in Syria, the US is not coming to the rescue'.

I actually find this tragic, then Syria was (or, should I say, 'it still is') really the opportunity.

K, then 'stay tunned' - for all the same media and same characters that are now damning any thoughts about intervention, to damn the failure to launch that intervention, sometimes in the future (i.e. we'll see a sort of opposite reaction to invasion of Iraq, where everybody who was 'pro' back in 2002-2003, can't be more 'contra' now).

[Dayuhan]

I actually find this tragic, then Syria was (or, should I say, 'it still is') really the opportunity.

What exactly was the opportunity?

[CrowBat]

For nothing, Dayuhan. Nothing at all: after all, you know the best that leaving Syrians at the mercy of Jihadist- and regime-psychopats is the best solution...

Meanwhile, elements of the 8th IRGC Division are deployed in Damascus area - supposedly to advise the RGD in armour ops, but malicious gossip has it that they are there to prevent further in-fighting between various Iranian, Iraqi and Lebanese Shi'a contingents that are stationed there since earlier...