How do you differentiate between the first 100,000 Syrians killed and the next 200? This has been a travesty for years, and now our non-leader draws a line and has to step up ("Punishing Syria," Aug. 26).

Moreover, now we are, in effect, backing Al Qaeda too. We really have them on the run now!

If this was a George Bush concoction, a very different editorial would have been written.

Lyle Rescott, Marriottsville