Indeed, for decades, and not just Syria.
The inability of humankind to police mass human rights violations is a gross market failure of the nation state system.
Butchery is way too low a bar.
Governments which imprison large portions of "their" population, or do not protect large portions of their populations from systematic prey by other classes, genders, or even common criminals, all ought be effectively punished and changed, even if "their" people can't get it together enough to do so (we have some examples of this within nation states, with a higher level of government forcing lower levels to respect/enforce human rights).
As tragic as it is, humankind has zero effective mechanism for doing any of this. We don't need yet another data point showing that bombing and similar is not effective, and indeed abets further violations.
The inability of humankind to police mass human rights violations is a gross market failure of the nation state system.
Butchery is way too low a bar.
Governments which imprison large portions of "their" population, or do not protect large portions of their populations from systematic prey by other classes, genders, or even common criminals, all ought be effectively punished and changed, even if "their" people can't get it together enough to do so (we have some examples of this within nation states, with a higher level of government forcing lower levels to respect/enforce human rights).
As tragic as it is, humankind has zero effective mechanism for doing any of this. We don't need yet another data point showing that bombing and similar is not effective, and indeed abets further violations.
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