And of course, I am not in anyway "justifying" Assad's evil - just to head off those logically impaired trolls. But if you want to occupy the "moral high ground" and tell others to practice more compassion and humanity, then you really need to practice it yourself.

You don't stop a bully by setting an even bigger bully on them. It can't work and it never has.

If the US wants to bring positive change in Syria and the ME, it needs to sit at the table with ALL those involved and make concessions and agreements - IN GOOD FAITH - with everyone. 

Dropping more bombs and killing more innocents will inevitably make things worse.

As the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, so pointedly noted, when he was trying to negotiate a peace with the Palestinians, to save his grandchildren decades of agonies and pain ...

"You negotiate peace with your enemies not with your friends".

Mr Trump - Learn from a real man who knew the horrific reality of war. Be a man - do it.