An esoteric argument

“A figure in the Muslim Brotherhood [said] ‘It’s not logical,’ (is the way he put it), ‘it’s not logical for President Obama to be so concerned about a thousand people killed in a chemical weapons attack when a hundred thousand have been killed, have been slaughtered by Assad in the last two years.’ And basically people here Jeff do not accept this distinction that the President is trying to make between the use of chemical weapons and the wholesale killing of Syrian civilians by aerial bombardment and artillery. They see it as an esoteric argument about some international weapons convention treaty that just has no relevance to their lives.”