America knows best.

Lost in oblivion [i.e., totally ignored], also predictably, was Russia's deputy UN ambassador Vladimir Safronkov shattering to bits the West's "obsession with regime change” in Syria, which is “what hinders this Security Council."^[1]

For a few minutes there it looked like the U.S. was abandoning its absurd objective of paving the way for Assad's replacement by some jihadi animal faction. Now it looks like we're back to the Obama Doctrine – Assad, must go!

The "brutal dictator" thing that's brought up in connection with Bashar al-Assad is juvenile. The presidents of South Africa and Zimbabwe are far more deserving of removal, the South African guy having a peculiar blind spot for the murder and dispossession of white farmers in his country.

In addition to which, the U.S. – with its fellow British, German, French, Norwegian, Saudi, and Qatari "coalition" members – aids and abets jihadi scum, draws in more jihadi scum from all points of the compass (turning the Syrian war into anything but a civil war that John Bolton thinks it is) and turns Syria into a free fire zone. Then, when Assad and his followers fight back in this war against them initiated by the U.S. and other civilized nation it seems, every last civilian casualty is laid at Assad's doorstep.

As though no civilians died in Fallujah when the U.S. waged war there or any other place where we've gone to war. Yes, Assad's the one. Assad the killer.

Get rid of him and our work is done.

Notes
^[1] "Syria: The Toxic Meltdown." By Pepe Escobar, Sputnik, 4/6/17.