"What has Israel got to do with that horror?"
Stringsinger made a remark in passing, you took up the remark in your continuing support for another terrorist state. I merely pointed out that the US's use of the veto in support for Israel and other human rights abusers has made it virtually impossible to condemn China and Russia because they are only echoing the US's past actions - same tactics, different terrorist state.
Now you want to drop that particular hot potato - and who's to blame you?
The US, the UK and the UN are doing exactly - nothing, and the massacres continue unabated, as does the hypocritical wailing and gnashing of teeth from their mindless supporters.
Nothing is done because they, like you "fear for Syria's Christians if and when the regime falls" - a clear argument for keeping that regime in place, with the support of your proposed "riot gear", no doubt.
If this 'nothing' continues to be the (non) response to Assad's murderously criminal behaviour, the end result will be to return Syria to being the viciously dictator-led state it always was, receiving the support from the West that it has always enjoyed.
As Britain's Vince Cable, the business secretary succinctly put it "We do trade with governments that are not democratic and have bad human rights records".
Jim Carroll