Can we please start arming the Syrians now? Assad may be a bastard, but he needs to restore order, and if that means smashing them with an iron fist, so be it. Its the only way Arabs can be governed anyway.
TOTALLY agree, arm Assad. He may be an sob, but he’s OUR SOB. Or could be.
As for Palmyra, this is a treasure beyond measure. Laying it to waste would be like tearing down the Acropolis in Athens, or the forum in Rome, Machu Pichu in Peru. The Syrian government, when they had one, administered and protected Palmya, which was a crossroads city that grew from humble beginnings as an oasis on caravan routes plying their way from the far east to the west, and on to Rome. The cultures of the world met and traded there, religions of all kinds had temples. This was pre-Christian.
Anyway, it’s a spectacular place and I’m hoping and praying that the isis MORONS do not blast it to smithereens.