No Good Guy

Early in the Syria conflict, the type of "limited" US intervention being proposed now might have made a substantive difference. Now, such American involvement will not alter the course of the conflict, and during the course of the Syrian fighting, both sides have revealed themselves to be absolutely bestial. The Assadist forces have at the very least deliberately bombed and shelled civilians, while the so-called "free forces" had a commander take video of himself literally eating the heart of regime soldier. The United States must abhor the recent Sarin gas attack, but can not side with al-Qaeda sympathizers and terrorists simply because they are fighting Assad.