idea. the idea that you would target a playground and bomb kids hoping that you would then convince people to give up because you d killed their kids? what kind of a sick mind comes up with a strategy like that? and what kind of severallized country is going to civilized country is going to support those tactics? that s what russia has done. martha: so how i can t believe he can stand there and make a statement like that. of course it s true, assad has been systematically targeting civilians since the outset of the war. the war has always been to break the back of the civilians and, therefore, separate support for any rebels whatsoever. that s been genocide and a human catastrophe from its outset. russia now joined that, and after 15 months of struggling to retake the territory that they thought they d be able to do easily, criticism s starting to build at home, putin makes a decision and it s this: i m