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Just slitting the throats of captured and tortured prisoners instead, which is still a war crime.

The executioner himself blames the Assad regime and not the West.

Also something I missed earlier;

The rebels in Homs began carrying out regular executions in August of last year, shortly after the conflict in the country began to escalate, says Hussein's comrade Abu Rami. In his Adidas tracksuit, he looks like any other convalescent in the hospital. But Abu Rami is a senior member of the Homs militia. The other Syrians in the ward greet him respectfully and pay close attention to his words.

"Since last summer, we have executed slightly fewer than 150 men, which represents about 20 percent of our prisoners," says Abu Rami. Those prisoners who are not convicted and sentenced to death are exchanged for rebel prisoners or detained protesters, he says. But the executioners of Homs have been busier with traitors within their own ranks than with prisoners of war. "If we catch a Sunni spying, or if a citizen betrays the revolution, we make it quick," says the fighter. According to Abu Rami, Hussein's burial brigade has put between 200 and 250 traitors to death since the beginning of the uprising.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/profile-of-rebels-in-homs-and-their-executioners-a-824603.html

So it would seem that yes, they have been that way since near the start of the conflict.

 Ratbarf wrote:
I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have been eating people's hearts.

Why? That region is notoriously violent. The only think that would have stopped it may have been intervention....temporarily but then as soon as the boots leave it all starts anew. Unless you want to constantly baby sit. All intervention does is increase the targets and possibly put bulls eyes on yourself. Let them kill each other, its a win/win.

Intervention doesn't stop the fighting between both sides....it just add a 3rd party into the fight

 Andrew1975 wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have been eating people's hearts.

Why? That region is notoriously violent. The only think that would have stopped it may have been intervention....temporarily but then as soon as the boots leave it all starts anew. Unless you want to constantly baby sit. All intervention does is increase the targets and possibly put bulls eyes on yourself. Let them kill each other, its a win/win.

The region is also notoriously lacking in the cannibal department.

 Ratbarf wrote:

 Andrew1975 wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have been eating people's hearts.

Why? That region is notoriously violent. The only think that would have stopped it may have been intervention....temporarily but then as soon as the boots leave it all starts anew. Unless you want to constantly baby sit. All intervention does is increase the targets and possibly put bulls eyes on yourself. Let them kill each other, its a win/win.

The region is also notoriously lacking in the cannibal department.

Indeed. There are a few places where cannibalism does/once existed. That area isn't one of them.

 Ratbarf wrote:
The region is also notoriously lacking in the cannibal department.

Some people seem to want to redress that imbalance

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:

 Andrew1975 wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have been eating people's hearts.

Why? That region is notoriously violent. The only think that would have stopped it may have been intervention....temporarily but then as soon as the boots leave it all starts anew. Unless you want to constantly baby sit. All intervention does is increase the targets and possibly put bulls eyes on yourself. Let them kill each other, its a win/win.

The region is also notoriously lacking in the cannibal department.

Indeed. There are a few places where cannibalism does/once existed. That area isn't one of them.

That you know of! Remember one indecent does not make an epidemic. I'm sure we get reports of every weird thing that happens in a conflict. You make it sound like its routine and all the soldiers are doing it. Eating a heart is shocking but cutting innocent peoples throats on the internet is fine, or car bombing streets full of women and children? All I've learned is that in that the whole middle east region has plenty of savages, am I really shocked that one of them was filmed eating somebody's heart? Not really. The way I see it, just more reason to stay out of it and let them wipe each other out. Let the Shia and the Sunnie wipe each other out. Remember "an attack on one Muslim, is an attack on all Muslims!" so right now they must all be killing each other.

The stuff that was and still is going on in Africa for the last 30 years is worse than this. Why are you not crying out for intervention there?

Don't stop the progression...eerrrrr.....expansion.......mmmmmm long pork......Emerald Queen in charge.

 Andrew1975 wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:

 Andrew1975 wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
I'm relatively sure they wouldn't have been eating people's hearts.

Why? That region is notoriously violent. The only think that would have stopped it may have been intervention....temporarily but then as soon as the boots leave it all starts anew. Unless you want to constantly baby sit. All intervention does is increase the targets and possibly put bulls eyes on yourself. Let them kill each other, its a win/win.

The region is also notoriously lacking in the cannibal department.

Indeed. There are a few places where cannibalism does/once existed. That area isn't one of them.

That you know of! Remember one indecent does not make an epidemic. I'm sure we get reports of every weird thing that happens in a conflict. You make it sound like its routine and all the soldiers are doing it. Eating a heart is shocking but cutting innocent peoples throats on the internet is fine, or car bombing streets full of women and children? All I've learned is that in that the whole middle east region has plenty of savages, am I really shocked that one of them was filmed eating somebody's heart? Not really. The way I see it, just more reason to stay out of it and let them wipe each other out. Let the Shia and the Sunnie wipe each other out. Remember "an attack on one Muslim, is an attack on all Muslims!" so right now they must all be killing each other.

The stuff that was and still is going on in Africa for the last 30 years is worse than this. Why are you not crying out for intervention there?

I have voiced my feelings for Imperialism several times prior. Personally all for it, bring back the Pax Britannica!

Well you are welcome to it then, just leave us out of it. There is no good side here, there has never been, right now we basically have a win/win situation where people we don't like are killing each other. Yeah! If we go in, then it turns into a lose/lose. Boooo!

Now maybe we can go in once they all kill each other off and take their land and go there for vacation, but I'm not sure Syria will every be a great get away spot full of beaches and boat drinks.

Putin already has a leg in Syria already

 Jihadin wrote:
Putin already has a leg in Syria already

In the department of redundancy department?

Maybe an amputation is in order.

Its a big naval base......

I'm all for letting Russia deal with it if they want. The Russians don't really pussy foot around when it comes to these kind of actions.....and they don't care if the rest of the world thinks they are being brutal. Winning hearts and minds has never really been much of a concern for them.

I'm sure someone is going to bring up Afghanistan, but we have learned how tough of a battle that was, and nobody was giving the Muj state of the art weaponry when we were doing it.