Can evidence of mass killings in Syria end the inertia? Only with Putin's helpThinkerX55: "This is all about gas pipelines isn't it ?"
No.
I think Freedland is wrong, the US may use this to weaken Putin's position, but they don't want to own the problem, and a bit of faux outrage isn't going to convince the Russians that their interests have changed. Fawaz Gerges was making a similar case case on the BBC News earlier. Because nobody can solve the military stalemate (I think Paul Wood, who has done some good reporting, earlier claimed that Assad is winning), we need to concentrate on humanitarian relief. But it is the attacks on civilians that have been central to Assad's prosecution of the war. Gerges said that inspectors should be sent into Syrian detention centres as a priority, how does he think that's going to happen? By asking the Iranians, who he very much regrets have been excluded from Geneva? Do me a favour.
As it happens the rebels are doing very well at the moment in the Damascus region. {http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/…/syria-details-of-daray…/]