Yes, this is a savage war and both sides are doing savage acts. That said, the Syrian Government's forces are really being barbaric. I'm still stuck on them using chemical weapons on civilians, on children. Syria is a bad place with a lot of bad people doing bad things to each other and millions of people stuck in the middle.
These would actually be funny if the weren't so ludicrous. So, here I stand on the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Appalachians and I can't help but shake my head at this defense. The simple fact is that Assad used chem on his people in a gamble. He thought President Trump wouldn't react, like President Obama didn't. He gambled and lost. Now the apologists are trying to create an alt-world where it didn't happen.