Marion Morrison
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"It’s time for Britain and its allies to take concerted, sustained military action to curb Bashar al-Assad’s ability to murder Syria’s citizens at will. Before hands are thrown up in horror at the prospect of another open-ended, armed western intervention in the Middle East, consider the following.
Since 2011, when the uprising against Assad’s regime descended into civil war, nothing has worked. As the toll has risen inexorably towards 500,000 dead, the United Nations has tried ceasefires, truces, pauses, local talks and national negotiations. All have fallen apart.
As millions of civilians fled, or were trapped, the EU and others proposed refugee quotas, safe havens, humanitarian corridors, no-fly areas and de-escalation zones. None has succeeded in staunching the flow of blood and misery. And Assad is not finished. Next up is rebel-controlled Idlib province, where millions cower in terror, awaiting their turn.
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It is just not good enough to say there is nothing the west can do in the face of mass murder. Are we straw men? Can we no longer distinguish between right and wrong? Allied military intervention, better late than never, is necessary to avoid future atrocities, spare innocent lives – and neutralise the vicious poison that everywhere is corroding faith in the universal rights of man, the international order, and international law."
After Douma, the west’s response to Syria’s regime must be military | Simon Tisdall
Who knew valerie was a Neocon warmonger?

Again I ask: So you agree with Trump, right? Well I don't. This whole thing is contrived.