re: Rebels burn Syria evacuation buses

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It doesn't seem like Assad cares too much about others opinions.

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Of course he does, just like we do but we still conduct operations that we know will inflict collateral damage in our war efforts. Too much international condemnation can lead to foreign powers intervening against you. Too much loss of political capital in your war conduct, or perception there of, can cost you in regards to your domestic political support. That Assad has been willing to accept great collateral damage in his efforts to defeat the rebels does not indicate that he therefore has no concerns regarding this. Victory, of course, holds supremacy in all or nothing military struggles.