Somebody has chosen to not learn the lessons of recent history there, and instead to just ignore reality. Or he just assumes that the doctrine of appeasing the rogues in principle is a good idea.
Once again helping to establish another fundamentalist, racist religious tyranny in the ME, after Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, that is hostile to the West and hostile to Israel, is not worth the life of a single Western soldier, and it is not worth a single Western tax cent.
I hate it when smart peanut counters try to demonstrate they can think with their hearts. You do not solve a mathematical equation by reading poems. The massacres of Muslim militias against Christains in Sudan was left unanswered, for exmaple, although it exceeds the Syrian bloodshed in size and bloodtoll by far. So why Syria now?
To piss the Russians...?
Meh.
