I guess you&#x27;re right, in my reading he more dodged the question than offering a direct judgement, though it certainly could be that implication.<p>I read it more as &quot;France killed Syrian civilians, so Syrians are killing French civilians&quot;, i.e. minus the &quot;are justified in&quot;.<p>Just as an aside, I think it&#x27;s more likely the perpetrators were actually French civilians or perhaps Iraqi civilians, with an interest in conquering Syria for establishing the (Iraqi) IS caliphate. So perhaps the whole &quot;revenge for syrians&quot; angle doesn&#x27;t work at all in any case.