It is not about taking sides in the Syrian conflict, it is not about invading, it is not about regime change, or even working more closely with the opposition.
While the U.S. says it doesn’t take sides in territorial disputes, it has sent ships and planes near contested islands, calling them freedom of navigation operations.
But now they were split in twain and the town was privileged to witness cousins of the fifth and sixth degree taking sides in the most shattering scandal Atlanta had ever seen.
This procedure, since it takes sides in a conflict of instinctive beliefs, stands in need of justification by proving the greater trustworthiness of the beliefs on one side than of those on the other.