There are some problems where just talking isn't enough...and as is too often the case, Russia has blocked any serious pressure on Assad to leave. This is the Russia 'little hands d' supports..who he admires as a strong man, or strongman. We have a state department in total disarray due to the payback for a stolen election...they both hated Hillary. It's sad to think of how quickly things have gone 'to hell in a hand basket.' Of course one can and should criticize the Obama team...they were too hands off after the lesson of the failed Bush administration's nation-building. At least Obama took charge, made clear and well-defined choices...consistency is the key, not bluster, to peace.
But now we have the absent Tillerson, 'Jared in charge', and who knows what else...can you believe the little d just learned that Assad is a bad man? Really? The pictures of dead and dying people is grotesquely shocking, my wife listened but could not watch, but we knew this...he has killed over 25o,000!