Will it increase or decrease the bloodletting? Either it would be insufficient to lead toward the toppling of the regime and would only encourage further bloodletting. The Assad regime is largely backed by a coalition of minorities; Christians, Shiites, Allawaites, Druze, and others who know that if Assad looses - so do they. They will fight to the end because they are fighting for their survival. Or we will have to see a massive military involvement that will cause a great deal of bloodletting in itself leading toward either a protracted civil war with even more bloodletting or a totalitarian regime equal or worse than Assad. Or we would be talking of a long term foreign imposed peace through military occupation. That, I can only imagine how well that would work.
There are situtions where military intervention may be the right thing to do.But I see no evidence that this is one of them. When I look at the history of U.S. military interventions - they were continually justified on moral grounds - only a few stood up to scrutiny . The vast majority were driven by deeply selfish motives.
Nothing good will come of a military attack - not in the long run - you will see
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