[1010RD]

So a religion based on murder, rape and plunder is murdering, raping and plundering? At least Obama’s consistent, he supports the destruction of liberty at every turn.

I never thought I’d ever find myself rooting for Bashir Assad of Syria and Sovietist Vladimir Putin.

Did you know Assad is an opthamologist? Maybe he can help America’s myopia.

[Westbrook]

> Sovietist Vladimir Putin.

Putin is not a Sovietist.

He's an imperialist.

Consider the cover of the passport of the Russian Federation. It is the Imperial Crest of the Tsar, which also appears as a water mark on every page of the passport. It is also the logo on every official Russian document.

[Nowhere Man]

I never thought I’d ever find myself rooting for Bashir Assad of Syria and Sovietist Vladimir Putin.

Strange world, ain't it? I'm in the same boat as you. As bad as these dictators like Assad, Saddam Hussein, Kadaffy, etc., were, at least religious minorities were fairly protected under them although I admit the exception was with the Kurds under Saddam. Still, these dictators were cut from a different cloth than the mooselimb brotherhood rebels, they were more secular, basically 1950's era Pan-Arab socialists. Assad is the lesser evil here.