C’mon Assad, can’t you kill ‘em decent? We have standards to uphold.
I know, the issue is collateral damage to noncombatants stuck in the city.
It’s a balancing act - juggling the “Don’t get into nation-building/regime change” game with stepping on those belligerent enough to flaunt international edicts against chemical and other weapons that equate to terrorism....and making it all clear to Putin while he’s at it.