Mr. Assad is the villain in Syria, and that's how the media should talk about it.

That isn't the message that's being sent.

This is a picture of links to other articles that the Washington Post has published.  The links are listed at the end of this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/10/score-one-american-diplomacy/

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Nobody can tell me that the media doesn't know how to send a simple message that makes a large group of people concentrate on one person.  What about the message "Lena is a slut?"