Why are its citizens being denied their human right to a free society?
What will the character of the country be when Mr. Assad has re-established his dictatorial control as a puppet of the Russian government, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, after having razed cities and demonstrated that every leader of every supposedly democratic country in the world is a greedy, lying coward?
How many more brutal repressions will there be in other countries, triggering the same useless dithering among democratic leaders, ultimately resulting in expensive nonsolutions for everything?
The refusal of democratic leaders to effectively confront Mr. Assad and his more powerful supporters has enabled him to win. I am not sure what made those leaders balk at the idea of militarily liberating Syria. How many thousands of refugees have died per hypothetical liberating soldier who might have died fighting that war? What is the actual cost of having refused to fight that war, in human lives, suffering, expenses of what help is being provided to the refugees, and the endless arguing of the weak and greedy cowards who both win and lose the elections in countries that, for now, have a materially higher quality of life than people in more politically repressive places?
How is the world going to deal with dictators from now on? Are the world's democratic leaders planning to choose from the self-imposed options of letting millions of people be tortured, murdered and starved or paying for them to subsist in herded degradation somewhere else?
Am I missing something? Do the world's democratic leaders have this all figured out and they just don't feel like telling anyone what their secret strategy is?
