More and more chemical bombs. Iran going nuclear. N. Korea going nuclear. WWIII. Your dead. Everybody is dead.
Sounds like Putin is the real dictator. As for al qaeda, as I mentioned elsewhere, I suspect our continuing support to the rebels which also happens to benefit some of them is part of an overall political calculation that we're not going to get to see.
I keep thinking of IQ47s remarks as I see this this situation going from stupid... drawing the line. To cowardly denying the line and then going to Congress for cover as opposed to going there first. To really stupid... taking so much time Assad has moved his assets and now incredibly bad with Putin and China getting involved. Good Job Mr. President. (no matter the outcome you are now worse than Carter. Peace Prize recipient to the historically most dangerous leader of the free world - in 5 years). Terrorism is bad but now the world is terrified. The leader of the United States wants to bomb without a plan... which will then leave stock piles of wmds lying around... and china and russia on the other side.
1) Russia has a different govt, sure he is a dictator, obama is just a wannabe. 2) That's a problem. Washington in it's infinite wisdom and secret schemes have caused too many messes to count. The people need to know WTF is going on, transparency and all that. No matter what mystical 'calculation' you think might be behind it, al qaeda has mass murdered US citizens, we should kill every single one of them, and never for any reason, help them out.
No, he wants to give Syria a little spanking for being a bad boy. Mother Russia wants to play Mommy and not let her little boy get spanked. Mother Russia is condoning chemical warfare = criminal. Mother Russia should screw off.