Here’s a big difference, the Vatican is having an official worldwide prayer vigil over this No way are they not going to deem it aggression that’s trouble and it was not the case in the Iraq war
Since our jihadist allies are slaughtering Christians, the Vatican is right. And we are wrong.
One thing that occurs to me. If we are offering to provide the "rebels" with a navy, an air force, intel, and tons of weapons, you'd think we'd be in a position to demand one condition in return: that they defend the lives of non-combatant civilians including Christian non-combatant civilians.
Somehow we haven't been able to bring ourselves to make this kind of demand. It is telling that we are all in an uproar about the civilians Assad's forces have killed but silent about the ones our jihadists are killing.