Meh, try Assad for crimes against humanity in the world court, and when he's found guilty, just put up a totally amazing, awe inspiring one billion dollar bounty on his head. He'll be gone in a week. Much cheaper, less collateral damage. I'm sort of not even kidding. Wishful thinking, though. Heck, one of the wealthier Arab League reps would probably volunteer the entire billion bucks, himself. Assad is not respected in the ME, at all.
I'm so sick of endless war. It's a surgical missile strike that they have in mind, but that is a gateway drug to more and more abuse of civvies and NATO soldiers.
Back to the numbers game speculation thing...Saddam Hussein was in fact in process of going down the primrose genocide path by attacks, including chemical, on Kurdish towns throughout the north, and systematically destroying the wetlands that the marsh Arabs lived in for thousands of years. He and his fucking boys needed to go, but I definitely wish it had been a bounty head hunter offer there too, instead of ten years of invader occupation warfare. Halliburton and Blackwater sure enjoyed it, though.