Uri Avnery comments on Obama and Syria.

Avnery's arguments that Assad's men would not have used poison gas at this time seem valid. However, it seems rather unlikely that the rebels have poison gas rockets, and somewhat unlikely they would have been so unscrupulous as to kill lots of civilians on their own side. This leaves me unable to attribute the attack to either side.

I also can't envision what a good outcome in Syria would consist of. Assad is an oppressor and the Islamists would be oppressors; Syria should not be ruled by either of them, but I don't see how any other government could arise. The unending war between them is horrible, but fighting to help one oppressor beat another is horrible too.

Perhaps in time the two camps will divide Syria and the fighting will taper off.