As if the car bombs and jet strikes weren’t clear enough, we’ve apparently this week realised Syria is in the midst of a violent sectarian civil war. The footage of a man eating another man’s heart has gone around the world and has really displeased rights groups and left politicians even more slightly upset. It has received untrammelled rolling news coverage and has set the online news consuming (and producing) communities chattering in a way I can’t remember seeing throughout Syria’s long and protracted crisis. TIME magazine fawned over its exclusive interview with Khalad al-Hamad (nom de guerre Abu Sakkar) extolling the most nuanced of tactical rebel positions (“We will slaughter them all”). Foreign Policy – a publication I greatly admire and am fortunate enough…