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Yep! It's very clear that Assad and his Shia backed regime are not the future govt preferred by the west and particularly the USA but they'd better become accustomed to it because Assad is winning the war and that is what baffles many people like myself who wonder logically why on earth he should use a chemical weapon at this stage of the war. Also one must mention that both sides in this conflict appear to have used chemical weapons! Is there really a good side in what I regard as a complex 'tribal war'? We are observing one 'bad guy' v other worse opponents who are not nice people either! I perceive that people in the west randomly observe lotsa kids affected by such events like this chemical attack and our humanitarian instinct wants to do something to help 'make things better'. However, we have a habit of 'making things worse' in such an intractable and complex conflict that has now passed the seven year mark! IMO talking is better than resorting to the use of bombs and Winston Churchill famously changed the 'talking' word to 'gabbing' when uttering a similar line re such folly.