I frankly don't care what Assad does. Not my war. I tend to side with him against the Muslim radicals. Is that not what's going on?
Exactly NONE OF THE WESTS BUSINESS.
And the immediate beneficiaries of any removal of Assad will be ISIS, the vacuum created ISIS will walk right into and take control of Syria and Syria will become like Iraq - second attempt to retake Mosul from ISIS now ongoing and how many civilians have been killed in this battle by the Iraqi Army with assistance from the American Army - and also exactly like Libya.
It's increasingly obvious that Trump is being blackmailed and/or threatened by The Deep State, I do NOT believe Trump did a COMPLETE about turn on Syria because of some sob story videos of children with breathing masks on their faces.
Whilst of course it's tragic, it's NOT WORTH risking another full-scale war a la Iraq for....I add that when GWB and Tony Blair bombed Iraq approx up to 500,000 Iraqi civilians lay dead at the end of the Shock and Awe Bombing Campaign, where were the Moralists then?
Now we're supposed to give a shit about what happens or doesn't happen in Syria, it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetically hypocritical.