Syria might have seemed just as an unsolvable calculus problem as you say it is now... back in the post Ottoman period and yet Syria held together and even thrived afterwards. The new Syria will be different for a start the minorities including the Kurds are obviously in a different position now. But its been the AQ and ISIL jihadist element which cannot be bargained with and they have to go. Civilians lives will surely improve once Aleppo is at peace again.
By the way Professor Cole was the Allied bombing of Germany and Japan or the US in Vietnam a war crime? It was certainly pretty indiscriminate in the effect. Or have the rules changed since?
The Assad regime is not innocent of many crimes but to take the story back to the US nor were the forces under Lincoln in the American Civil War. Civil Wars are usually some of the worst kinds. But in the case of Syria and with the opposition now almost exclusively in the hands of the very jihadist organisations which brought 9/11 on America and thus unleashed Bush's attack on Afghanistan …what would you have? An Al Qaeda ruled Syria which would be little different from ISIS? And which US and UK troops fought and died to prevent in Afghanistan ( with scant success)? Assad is still supported by the many minorities who make up a large part of Syria because at the very least- undemocratic even brutal and autocratic.. he defended a secular state. I stayed in Syria in the 90's none in their right mind ( and not jihadist influenced) would not have preferred that as it was to what has happened since.
Syria might have seemed just as an unsolvable calculus problem as you say it is now... back in the post Ottoman period and yet Syria held together and even thrived afterwards. The new Syria will be different for a start the minorities including the Kurds are obviously in a different position now. But its been the AQ and ISIL jihadist element which cannot be bargained with and they have to go. Civilians lives will surely improve once Aleppo is at peace again.
By the way Professor Cole was the Allied bombing of Germany and Japan or the US in Vietnam a war crime? It was certainly pretty indiscriminate in the effect. Or have the rules changed since?
The Assad regime is not innocent of many crimes but to take the story back to the US nor were the forces under Lincoln in the American Civil War. Civil Wars are usually some of the worst kinds. But in the case of Syria and with the opposition now almost exclusively in the hands of the very jihadist organisations which brought 9/11 on America and thus unleashed Bush's attack on Afghanistan …what would you have? An Al Qaeda ruled Syria which would be little different from ISIS? And which US and UK troops fought and died to prevent in Afghanistan ( with scant success)? Assad is still supported by the many minorities who make up a large part of Syria because at the very least- undemocratic even brutal and autocratic.. he defended a secular state. I stayed in Syria in the 90's none in their right mind ( and not jihadist influenced) would not have preferred that as it was to what has happened since.