Will never stop being amazed at the stupidity and inhumanity of privileged American think tank bros who think the suffering in Syria will end by normalising relations with the regime systematically exterminating a large chunk of its population.
Syrian Americans lobbied Congress for sanctions with thousands of photographs proving Assad’s campaign of systematic mass murder. They won, you lost, get over it. The defector responsible, Caesar, is in Time’s 100 people this year. You are not.
Seriously, these figures talking about the suffering under sanctions are the same that were writing policy proposals endorsing solutions that would result in the death or displacement of 3 million people in Northern Syria, right up until Turkish military intervention.
Withdrawal, sanctions relief and normalisation comes after a nation has stopped engaging in mass murder, not before.
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