Missing in Action

As Assad continues to kill Syrian civilians even as he pretends he is cooperating with international efforts to stop the killing of civilians, I have to wonder where the "human shield" movement is?

Recall that they flocked to Saddam's Iraq when it looked like we might attack. For the most part they wanted to be stationed at convents and kitten shelters to protect them from American bombing rather than air defense sites or the like.

Where is that movement? Oh, I'm not even talking about why aren't they in Syria to stop actual killing of civilians by the Assad regime. That would be too obvious. I don't expect those nitwits to actually put themselves between Assad's thugs and civilians. That would be dangerous and they aren't actually brain dead, you know.

No, I want to know why the shields aren't flocking to Syria to stand between a NATO bombing campaign and Assad's regime? After Libya, the shields can't say that Obama would never do what Bush did, now can they?

Isn't Assad enough of a minority sect, Baathist regime that hates American and Israel, supports terrorism, has WMD, and oppresses the majority?

I mean, really, why was Saddam shield-worthy but Boy Assad isn't?