Trib cries out for Syria but not Iraq

"President Barack Obama must reconcile the bloodbath that took place in that broken city with the indefensible policy of idly watching it happen from the sidelines."

So ends the Trib editorial "Requiem for Allepo" lamenting the carnage in the Syrian civil war that contains the implicit belief that Syrian government forces are the bad guys while the rebels are the good guys. The Trib, like every US media outlet condemning western powers for not intervening directly to overthrow Syrian President Assad, knows that much of the rebel forces represent the same jihadist forces responsible to the 911 attacks, and would likely have implemented a bloodbath on Shi'ites, Christians and non-allied Syrians had they taken over that worn torn land. The Trib also knows that unlike the US, Russia is truly existentially threatened by a Sunni extremist rebel government setting up shop on its doorstep and would have been derelict in its duty to protect its security allowing a rebel takeover. The Trib surely knows that the US and western allies had the opportunity to achieve a workable peace in 2012, but spurned Russia's offer because they felt Assad was on the verge of collapse, and wanted to do a victory lap over his demise. Lastly, and most telling, the Trib fails to mention its role as supporter of the criminal US war in Iraq which killed many more than in Syria, and will go on killing and deforming fetuses for generations from the depleted uranium we left behind. Go ahead and bemoan President Obama not intervening in a civil war we had no business intervening in and would have failed monstrously had we done so. Then look in the mirror and hang your heads in shame.