Arab Israeli newscaster: Aleppo onslaught is a holocaust

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5. Short of armed intervention what could we do to stop this?

First, playing devil's advocate for a sec. There is a tendency in Arab reporting of events of this kind to overstate them (except for the side committing the atrocity, which has an incentive to deny or understate them). The rebels certainly have reason to claim that the massacre is worse than it actually is. That being said, the claims are entirely believable, especially with Assad in power. His family and personal history is about as blood drenched as anyone's.

But what can the civilized world do to stop this? It's not like Obama is such a friend of Putin that he's shy about saying anything about this or about putting pressure on Russia to get the Syria Government to stop murdering its own people. The President is probably doing that already. But that kind of pressure hasn't worked, and isn't likely to work now. And it's not like publicly shaming Assad or Putin is going to stop the killing. Neither give a crap about that. What can the West do? Stop buying Russian gas? Or try the carrot route and offer to pull NATO out of the Baltics? Publicly accept Russia's taking of Crimea and interference in Ukraine? I don't think so.

Is there anyone on this board who think's bombing Syria is the answer? Because military intervention is what it would take.