Your “Ugh – This Crap Again?!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

First fucking time a politicians ever over promised! Dur damn libtards!!

Interesting you don’t provide a source. Many news outlets can be trusted when verified by other sources, however in the age of headline first they make mistakes, but various bloggers that cater to certain view points who post unsourced emails, are not. Assad has used Sarin gas in the last one and the less affective chlorine gas in many others. His and his Russian buddy’s main focus for this war are the Syrian rebels, not ISIS or the much less influential al Qaeda.

Against these people, mostly civilians, they have used chemical attacks, siege tactics and starvation, mass executions and torture, targeting of hospitals, and scud missiles on population centers. Sounds like you are fine with that. There was a time before they killed all these people when a new government could have been a mixture of Syrians rather than ISIS, now it is at the point where there will be just factionalism with no successful end game on anybody’s part.

You are vastly over simplifying what is going on; there are hundreds of individual groups, that have coalesced into five opposition groups, which could easily splinter depending on outcomes of various fights, foreign support, and of course sectarianism. It is not a simple this one or that one.

Any approach or policy there will be complicated and nuanced, which even a focused and intelligent US administration with congressional backing would be incapable of, let alone a Twitter regime.

Below is a simplified diagram from 2016 that gives an idea of how complex the situation is: