Very well-written and well-sourced article. Our prosecution of war in Syria both directly and through our proxies is, and has been, an absolute disgrace. You cited one excellent Seymour Hersh piece in your essay. He has written several on the Syrian conflict that are quite illuminating. In 2013 and 2014 he published, Whose Sarin? and The Red Line and the Rat Line, both of which were published by the London Review of Books and address the alleged use of chemical weapons by Assad.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

More recently Hersh again wrote of alleged chemical attacks carried out by Assad in early 2017. This time the London Review of Books refused to publish Hersh's piece, despite having vetted it and paid him for it. He was forced to publish in Germany's Die Welt.

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html

The unfortunate truth is that Pulitzer-award winning journalist Seymour Hersh can't get his meticulously sourced articles published in the United States because they conflict with narrative of the DC/Media establishment. They want war in Syria, and everywhere else, and do their best to silence voices of reason like Hersh and Sarahabed. Thanks for bringing some light to the issue.