This is not to pick on Stewart, who after all is only a satirist, but rather to highlight a larger issue that this segment represents in how we talk about Syria now that it’s become a political issue. The premise of both Stewart’s chemical weapons jokes and his decision to engage with the punditry over the policy, a premise that is increasingly prevalent in the American discussion around Syria, is that the country and its conflict primarily matter because the United States might get involved.
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