Uh, well, what goes around comes around, I guess.
I'm too apathetic to care, actually.
This is some rhetorical point you are making maybe? Hopefully?
Now, this shooter isn't aligned with ISIS or the rebels from what I've heard. He's actually connected to the elements who launched the coup this summer. This shooting was an attempt to destabilize the government of Turkey and Russia's noble efforts to bring Syria to piece. So if Assad turning Aleppo into rubble is necessary to bring the "rebels" to heel once and for all, then so be it.
If anything, the United States and the west ought to go to Assad and personally apologize for what we've done to Syria and Iraq in the last decades and then make it up to him by dropping a blank check into his lap until ISIS and the rebels are mopped up once and for all. We might as well try and draw him out of Russia and Iran's orbit while we're at it. That is a win-win-win.
Of course, we won't. Even under President Trump. Sad!
Piece
s, more like. Bringing peace might have involved leaning on Assad to step down and put someone in who wasn't indiscriminately shelling his own cities and people. The sometimes- maybe-more-moderate rebels are mostly defeated now anyway, so you have your wish, now it's mostly just Al-Qaeda and ISIS who still have any power left against Assad. So the ISIS of 2020 is going to come probably from people witnessing the devastation now taking place. It doesn't take a genocidal religious extremist to want to kill someone from a regime involved in destroying a people, but such a situation is a good recruiting tool for those extremists.
