Except that since the UN inspectors haven't (to my knowledge) declared Assad responsible (yet, it's still possible they will), you're either working from sources you haven't shared with us, in which case PLEASE DO, or you're basing your opinion on rumors and armchair experts who know jack shit about the actual situation.
You are insistent that you understand exactly what's going on, and anyone who disagrees with you is a "conspiracy theorist" (which is complete bullocks) - yet you caution us to avoid listening to armchair experts? The irony is palpable.
Wrong. Assad has shown his guilt by having forces shell the [now empty] area for a week straight. The UN inspectors have been interviewing and collecting samples from hospitals and victims. Much more important than blaming the US for every possible thing, like you enjoy to do, without evidence 'we don't know if it was Assad, could've been rebels!' [Without noting the area was besieged by military and under artillery attacks during the entire operation, unless Rebels gassed themselves with weapons they don't have, it didn't happen,
as Syria has not stated that the opposition has stolen any chemical weaponry, which they would make a field day out of in Syrian state media]
They're confirming the use of the weapons and Assad waiting a week after shelling the gassed are shows the military has plenty to hide. Unless you'd like to continue with these fantasies about the US being involed in every single event around the world. Could be a Dictator gassed rebels in his capital to keep the other locals from doing the same, hmm, but no, it must be the US.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013826123738116707.htmlHumor me this... Assad is currently winning.
Arguable. Majority of non-major towns including Homs are not under government control. Many 'state' highways not in the greater Damascus area are toll paths for rebels.
Northeast Syria will never become part of the Syrian state again, due to the Kurds finally getting a chance to flex their independence, they will not give it back now. In fact, the Kurds have been fighting a brutal campaign to keep rebels from collecting/recruiting off their lands.
Syria is now a fractured state no matter who wins. If Assad regains total power he will in either case create an autonomous Kurdish region and there will be insurgency in the non-Urban areas for time immemorial. Two rebellions in the last 30 years where 10k+ die will cause that to people.
This gassing has nothing to do with US involvement. We're the great satan, sure, but doing such an operation would help US interests in zero way. At all. If this was a US setup it'd be setting up the Islamist factions of rebels to get an excuse to cleanse the 'dirty' rebels from the correct, democratic ones. But it's not. Seriously. We don't need any more excuses to be doing anything, why would they do it now?
Now we get to choose between supporting a rainbow [very likely to facture] coalition or a dickhole who gasses his people and bombs them indiscriminately. I'll let you decide which is better, I can't.
If this was PI the warscore would look something like Rebels -20% Assad +10% and Kurds +99%. All in all, if Kurdistan gets an independent nation out of this.. I think that'd be a desirable outcome, no matter who comes out on top in Syria. The Kurds have been screwed for too long, I feel for them as a Jew. They didn't even get to claim lands.