Enough, Mr. Annan, enough.
What are we afraid of? We’re still on the side of the angels. And Russia and China still have no moral grounds to support Assad.
If they choose to support him anyway in a military conflict, that’s their business. We still have the rest of the world on our side. And if Iran wants to get involved, let it. Before doing so, it should remember that the way to Iran is still through Syria. And we will take that path and take them both out — if that’s what it takes.
Yes there would be a loss of many lives . It would be costly. And it would disrupt the world economies. The ugliness of war has not changed in our information age.
Nonetheless, there is no other way to get rid of these entrenched monsters. When the job is done, we will rebuild — as we had done after WWII.
Everything else we’ve already tried, as God is our witness. It is now time to act — for the Syrian people, for all people who hope for a better world, and for our own self-respect.