The effort to consider them just like us became exhausting, as we were becoming more like them—murderers—than they were becoming more like us—victims. "To me they all became Bashar Al Assad, not just his victims. Little by little he receded, tucked in his palace while the most truthful manifestation of him and his regime was that torturer in the prison, that soldier on the field, that chopper in the sky."
Попытки считать их такими же, как мы, стали изматывать, а мы становились больше похожи на них, убийц, чем они на нас, жертв.