Muh barrel bombs

Barrel bombs are authoritarian. Raytheon bombs are democratic.

A US senator being told that the US can't unilaterally impose a no-fly zone must feel like the biggest blue-balling of all time.

They've been trying to start a big shooting war in Syria for quite some time now. Remember when Trump was going to withdraw the troops, Senator McCain made a beeline to Syria for meetings, and a week later there was a false flag chemical attack that forced the cancellation of the withdrawal plan?

In 2016, then Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed this policy in a leaked audio conversation, saying that the U.S., rather than seriously fighting the Islamic State in Syria, was ready to use the growing strength of the jihadists to pressure Assad to resign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4phB-_pXDM