Universal condemnation? Who cares. He’s got enough backing and the US isn’t going to do anything so why not shorten the military action and end any resistance? Listen, he’s been doing this since 2013 and no one’s stopped him yet.
“That’s right,” Jennifer Cafarella, a senior intelligence planner at the Institute for the Study of War, told Business Insider. “Assad attacked civilian targets in Douma after Jaysh al Islam refused to accept a surrender deal.”
“Assad’s goal was to break the will of the local population and force Jaysh al Islam to surrender. He succeeded,” Cafarella wrote in an emailed statement, adding that it was also to show “impunity after President Trump signaled his desire to withdraw from Syria.”