Comment: The cynicism of Western governments to civilian casualties in Syria is just stunning. They say little to nothing when pro-government civilians are slaughtered in huge numbers by terrorist groups, but go (literally) ballistic when anti-government civilians dies in highly questionable circumstances.

A week ago, in response to an alleged chemical attack against anti-government civilians, the USA, Britain, Canada and a few others were aghast. Trump launched 59 missiles against the Syrian government. Yet today, as the terrorist group targets pro-government civilians, those same countries are silent. Even though the casualties are far higher. Meanwhile, the compliant Western news media makes no effort to question the governments' obvious hypocrisy when it comes to civilian casualties.