What happened in 1999 means fuck all -- same goes for GW Bush's War crimes in the Iraq invasion -- or for Putin's complicity with war crimes in eastern Ukraine. That is the lamest reasoning I have ever heard. That's no different than trying to justify todays war crimes with the war crimes in WW2 -- fucking stupid reasoning.
Both Russian made and US made bomb and delivery systems are much more accurate that what was in use in 1999. That is just lame or very informed reasoning. The Syrian government is behaving the same as the rebels and ISIS -- that is the problem there -- that are ALL terrorists at this point -- total disregard and total savagery.
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Ok Adolf Hitler committed genocide so that is an excuse for the Hutu to commit genocide against the Tutsi or the Serbs mass murder of Bosnians?
So, by this fucked up logic it OK for the Syrians to kill civilians intentionally (or by recklessness). Bad shit happens when you at war but this is a bit ridiculous already.
Trump and Putin will fix this

