Can someone please explain the basics of war to Lurch.

Via NRO:

. . . “I guarantee you if we turn our backs today, the picture we all saw in the paper today and the media of those people shot, that will take place more because more extremists will be attracted to this, because they will be funded as the only alternative in order to take on Assad,” Kerry told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Thursday, referring to a New York Times report that featured a rebel group brutally executing pro-Assad forces.