An unholy alliance of Western governments, Israel, Gulf dictatorships and terrorist groups against the Syrian government are the reason this armed conflict went especially bad. Yet for all its faults, the Syrian government wasn't remotely bad enough to justify all the carnage created by that Machiavellian plan to get rid of it.

If you care about the victims of this war- the hundreds of thousands already and those to come- you will pray for a quick victory by the Syrian government.