After 9/11 there was a lot of confusion. But after a while it became obvious that a mostly Saudi group called al-Qaida had done so, however difficult it was to pin down al-Qaida as a unified organisation.
There are people who denied all this, who said it was a plot by the US government to propel us into war with Iraq. There are times when I can be sympathetic to how people got to such a position, and even examine the arguments they put forward for their theory of events. But the denial of the Syrian government's responsibility for its murder of a similar number of people has been of a similarly conspiracist turn, which reminds me that one thing said about 9/11 Truthers is that they mock the victims by denying the culpability of the actual perpetrators.
Of course 9/11 came out of a clear sky, whereas the massacre in Eastern Ghouta has been done by a government that has been waging a war against its own people for two years, which should make it easier to spot the obvious, and avoid slandering the Syrian people as capable of doing this to themselves.
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