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  There is bigger stuff at stake here than just Syria. Unless we want to live in a world where tyrannical regimes think they can get away with using chemical weapons with impunity (and someone used them, almost certainly the Syrian armed forces), then there has to be a response. And the only response likely to mean anything now is force, or at least the credible threat of it. Ideally with UN backing but that may be impossible because of the Russians and Chinese.
  
  We won't see troops on the ground (at least for a good while) and probably not airstrikes either, it will be tomahawk cruise missiles from US ships and subs in the Med, and probably from Royal Navy subs as well. I reckon within days.
  
  The Syrian government are idiots. Obama was clearly very reluctant to get involved. Only an action that was totally beyond the pale was going to change that and that's what they did. Assad is finished now and good riddance. Just hope not too many others have to die before him.

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