soul craft. if a tyrant kills 10,000 men it's bad, if he kills 10,000 women it's worse. if he kills 10,000 children it's the essence of pure evil. i think we need to say something about chemical weapons. there's a reason why bashar al assad used them. he needed to. he needs to keep using them. if you look at the casualty rates in syria, the regime is not doing very well. jeffrey white who's a first rate military analyst had the arduous job of compiling them. roughly 230,000 regime forces both regular and irregular have been wounded or died in this conflict. around 90,000 of the opposition have. that is soldiers -- that is defectors, opposition forces, islamists all put together. now if you do the ma, the alowites have roughly 50% of the population to draw on. sunnis have 70 to 75% of the population. assad has to change that kill rate. he has to make his side kill more from the other with fewer