Any idiot with more than three synapses that still fires in their brain has gotten a rather in your face lesson about “repressive governments” in the middle - east.
Dictators that “brutalize their own people” were keeping a lid on their own domestic nutcases and not allowing a jihad to take root and flourish in their various crap holes.
A rough analogy would be chemo-therapy — yeah, it sucks, some healthy tissue gets whacked along with the cancer, and the treatment can make you dammed near as sick as the disease would. But as bad as the treatment is, it is not as bad as the disease itself...
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Well said FRiend.
That has been a traditional liberal position. Suddenly, Trump espouses that, and the media/liberals are sounding like neocons.